Directions in Corpus Linguistics: Proceedings of Nobel Symposium 82 Stockholm, 4-8 August 1991

Preface\nSymposium participants\nOpening address\nIntroduction\nCorpus linguistics comes of age\nHistorical conspectus Language corpora B.C\nTheoretical issues\n“Corpus linguistics” or “Computer-aided armchair linguistics”\nLanguage as system and language as instance: The corpus as a theoretical construct\nThe importance of corpus linguistics to understanding the nature of language\nComments\nCorpora and theories of linguistic performance\nComments\nCorpus design and development\nDesign principles in the transcription of spoken discourse\nComments\nModern Swedish text corpora\nComments\nA new corpus of English: ICE\nComments\nThe diachronic corpus as a window to the history of English\nComments\nExploration and application of corpora\nUsing computer-based text corpora to analyze the referential strategies of spoken and written texts\nComments\nRationality in everyday talk: From process to system\nComments\nUsing corpus data in the Swedish Academy grammar\nComments\nPreferred ways of putting things with implications for language teaching\nComments\nThe automatic analysis of corpora\nComments\nThe odd couple: The linguist and the software engineer. The struggle for high quality computerized language aids\nComments\nProbabilistic parsing\nComments\nPostscript\nOn corpus principles and design\nAfterword\nPersonal names index\nSubject index