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| Description | Text/Corpus Linguistics | Kwd:1 Text:1 |
| have worked with large-scale corporate corpora, starting with tobacco industry documents. Regularly teach text and corpus analysis. |
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| Description | Historical sociolinguistics: data, models, methods | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| See my homepage (link below) and the homepage of the Research Unit for Variation, Contacts and Change in English at:
http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/about/index.html |
| Historical Linguistics
Morphology
Sociolinguistics
Syntax
Text/Corpus Linguistics
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| Description | Learner corpus research | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| Collection, annotation and analysis of corpora containing written or spoken data from second or foreign language learners. Design of corpus-based pedagogical applications (grammars, dictionaries, etc) |
| Applied Linguistics
Computational Linguistics
Lexicography
Second language acquisition
Text/Corpus Linguistics
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| Description | Corpus-based contrastive studies | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| Collection and analysis of multilingual comparable and translation corpora (English, French and Dutch). Design of pedagogical applications (e.g. bilingualized dictionaries) |
| Applied Linguistics
Computational Linguistics
Contrastive linguistics
Lexicography
Text/Corpus Linguistics
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| Description | Verbs of Emotion and Impersonals in OE and ME | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| This PhD project of mine is concerned with the links between syntax and semantics of OE and ME verbs of emotion, which often, but not always, occurred in impersonal constructions. |
| Historical Linguistics
Lexicography
Linguistics & Literature
Semantics
Syntax
Text/Corpus Linguistics
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| Description | English question tags | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| My work (consisting of one book and several articles in French) deals with utterances that contain finite question tags in English. It is based on a corpus of both written and oral English. |
| Phonology
Semantics
Syntax
Text/Corpus Linguistics
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| Description | English subordinates | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| I am interested in the categories of subordinates in English, especially when they overlap and / or when corpus examples tend to be hybrid or ambiguous, as well as in the use of modality (will/would). |
| Syntax
Text/Corpus Linguistics
Typology
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| Description | Variation and change in morphological productivity | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| I study sociolinguistic variation and change in the morphological productivity of certain derivational affixes from EModE to PDE; I am also developing corpus linguistic tools and methods for this. |
| Historical Linguistics
Morphology
Sociolinguistics
Text/Corpus Linguistics
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| Description | Data mining tools for analysing annotated corpora | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| DAMMOC's aims are (1) to identify methods in data analysis and visualisation that are useful for the study of language; (2) to develop these methods into software tools accessible to corpus linguists. |
| Computational Linguistics
Historical Linguistics
Morphology
Sociolinguistics
Syntax
Text/Corpus Linguistics
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| Description | C18: 18th-century change | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| We carry out pilot studies on the Corpus of Early English Correspondence Extension, CEECE. The results will be published as a book about sociolinguistic variation and change in the long 18th century. |
| Historical Linguistics
Morphology
Sociolinguistics
Syntax
Text/Corpus Linguistics
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