Textual analysis: from philology to corpus linguistics In the pre-electronic era, textual analysis was largely a matter of analyzing "static" texts, i.e., texts produced by writers at a given point in time. For instance, Otto Jespersen's (1909鈥 1949) seven volume is based on a large co...
Szmrecsanyi (2005: 144) has noted that it is “not easily possible to disentangle the [various] motivations through corpus study in a waterproof fashion”. However, this is an opportunity to form and test new methods; it is often when engaging with such challenges that breakthroughs occur in...
As for its data, now the argument over intuition or corpus also fades as p 38、eople realize the advantages of both and as corpus linguistics develops rapidly with the advent of computer technology. Lyons predicted in the seventies by pointing out that linguistics is empirical, rather than ...
The list was initially created based on shortlisting high-frequency words—with a frequency rating of one hundred or more—from reading material of that era and a speech corpus of student interactions in a kindergarten classroom [43]. The Dolch word list is often categorized by grade—pre-...