CL 2009 CL2009 Conference Proceedings    

Proceedings of the
Corpus Linguistics Conference

CL2009

University of Liverpool, UK

20-23 July 2009

Edited by
Michaela Mahlberg, Victorina González-Díaz, Catherine Smith

This page contains the proceedings of the CL2009 conference held at the University of Liverpool, UK, July 20-23 2009. For those articles without a full paper, the proceedings include an abstract. Paper numbers followed by '(a)' indicate that only an abstract is available.

Index

Colloquia

Article #57(a):
Working with the Spanish Corpus PUCV-2006: Academic and professional genre identification and variations

Authors: Giovanni Parodi, Romualdo Ibañez, René Venegas and Cristián González

Article #136(a):
Converging and diverging evidence: corpora and other (cognitive) phenomena?

Authors: Dagmar Divjak and Stefan Gries

Article #185(a):
Applications of Corpus Linguistics for EFL classrooms

Authors: Renata Condi de Souza, Márcia Veirano Pinto, Marilisa Shimazumi, Jose Lopes Moreira Filho, Tony Berber Sardinha and Tania Shepherd

Article #258(a):
Using parallel newspaper corpora for Modern Diachronic Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (MD-CADS)

Authors: Alan Scott Partington, Alison Duguid, Anna Marchi, Charlotte Taylor and Caroline Clark

Article #272(a):
Corpus Linguistics and Literature

Authors: Bettina Fischer-Starcke and Martin Wynne

Article #289(a):
Beyond corpus construction: exploitation and maintenance of parallel corpora

Authors: Oliver Čulo, Silvia Hansen-Schirra and Stella Neumann

Article #357:
Corpus Based Approaches to Figurative Language

Authors: Alan Wallington, John Barnden, Mark Lee, Rosamund Moon, Gill Philip and Jeanette Littlemore

Article #447:
Colliding Worlds: Academic and Industrial Solutions in Parallel Corpus Storage and Retrieval

Authors: Bettina Schrader

Article #450:
Hundreds of Examples of Figurative Language from the AAC-Austrian Academy Corpus.

Authors: Hanno Biber

Article #451:
Experts versus Laypersons: Differences in the metaphorical conceptualization of ANGER, LOVE and SADNESS.

Authors: Anke Beger

Article #452:
A Cryptotype Approach to the Study of Metaphorical Collocations in English.

Authors: Olga Boriskina

Article #455:
Novel Metaphor Extensions in Political Satire.

Authors: Daniel P. Corts and Spencer J. Campbell

Article #457:
Words on the edge: conceptual rules and usage variability.

Authors: Elisabetta Gola and Stefano Federici

Article #459:
A Corpus approach to figurative expressions of fear in business reports.

Authors: Janet Ho

Article #460:
Variation in death metaphors in the last statements by executed Texas death row inmates.

Authors: Helena Halmari

Article #461:
That girl is hot, her dress is so cool, and I'm just chilling out now: Emergent Metaphorical Usages of Temperature Terms in English and Italian.

Authors: Maria Ivana Lorenzetti

Article #463:
Metaphors On The Way To Lisbon: Will The Treaty Go On The Trunk Line Or Will It Be Stopped In Its Course?

Authors: Chiara Nasti

Article #468:
Camus Variation of cancer metaphors in scientific texts and popularisations of science in the press.

Authors: Julia T. Williams

Workshops

Article #22(a):
Mapping Meaning onto Use using Corpus Pattern Analysis

Authors: Patrick Hanks

Article #60(a):
Exploring phraseological variation and aboutness with ConcGram

Authors: Chris Greaves, Elena Tognini Bonelli and Martin Warren

Article #177(a):
The Sketch Engine

Authors: Adam Kilgarriff

Article #240(a):
Using Parallel Corpora for Language Analysis and Language Teaching

Authors: Michael Barlow

Article #335(a):
A multi-modal approach to the construction and analysis of spoken corpora

Authors: Dawn Knight, Svenja Adolphs, Ronald Carter and Paul Tennent

Papers

Article #11(a):
New Developments in Optimization of Linguistic Corpus Research: TextAnalyst and NetXtract

Authors: Victoria Tuzlukova

Article #19:
Parallel Corpora: The Case of InterCorp

Authors: František Čermák

Article #21(a):
Expressing gratitude by non-native speakers of English: Using the International Corpus of English (Hong Kong component)

Authors: May Wong

Article #23:
From theory to corpus and back again - the case of inferential constructions

Authors: Andreea Calude

Article #25(a):
Signalling Connections: Linking Adverbials in Research Writing across Eight Disciplines

Authors: Matthew Peacock

Article #26(a):
The British English '06 Corpus - using the LOB model to build a contemporary corpus from the internet.

Authors: Paul Baker

Article #27(a):
Units of Meaning in Language = Units of Teaching in ESP classes? The Case of Business English

Authors: Bettina Fischer-Starcke

Article #29:
Corpus-based Lexical Analysis for NNS Academic Writing

Authors: Alejandro Curado-Fuentes

Article #30:
Using a corpus of simplified news texts to investigate features of the intuitive approach to simplification

Authors: David Allen

Article #31(a):
A corpus-driven approach to identifying distinctive lexis in translation

Authors: Ana Frankenberg-Garcia

Article #32(a):
Phraseological choice as 'register-idiosyncratic' evaluative meaning? A corpus-assisted comparative study of Congressional debate

Authors: Donna Rose Miller and Jane Helen Johnson

Article #34(a):
The GENTT Corpus: A Genre-Based Approach within Specialised Translation

Authors: Maria del Pilar Ordonez-Lopez

Article #38(a):
Collecting and collating heterogenous datasets for future multi-modal corpus enquiry

Authors: Dawn Knight

Article #39(a):
Establishing a historiography for corpus-events from their frequency: a celebration of Bertrand Russell's (1948) five postulates

Authors: Bill Louw

Article #40:
English Equivalents of the Most Frequent Czech Prepositions. A Contrastive Corpus-based Study

Authors: Ales Klegr and Marketa Mala

Article #41:
A Corpus-Based Study of Chinese Learners' Use of Synonymous Nouns in College English Writing

Authors: Hong Wang

Article #46(a):
How does a grammar interplay with other grammars?: A corpus-based approach to the Korean verbal negation system in panel discussions

Authors: Jini Noh

Article #47(a):
A New Computing Measure for Extracting Contiguous Phraseological Units from Academic Texts

Authors: Naixing Wei, Jingjie Li and Junying Zhou

Article #48:
DDL for the EFL classroom: Effective uses of a Japanese-English parallel corpus and the development of a learner-friendly, online parallel concordancer

Authors: Kiyomi Chujo, Laurence Anthony and Kathryn Oghigian

Article #51(a):
Taking stance across languages: Modal verbs of epistemic necessity and inference in English and Polish research articles

Authors: Krystyna Warchal;

Article #52:
"On quoting ..." - a corpus-based study on the phraseology of well-known quotations

Authors: Sixta Quassdorf

Article #53:
Howevering the howevers and butting the buts. Investigating contrastive and concessive constructions in media discourse.

Authors: John Wade and Stefano Federici

Article #55:
Corpus Profiling with the Posit Tools

Authors: George R S Weir

Article #58(a):
You're so dumb man. It's four thousand years old. Who's dumber me cos I said it or the guys that thought I was serious?: Age and Gender-related Examination of Insults in Irish English

Authors: Brona Murphy

Article #59(a):
The forms and functions of organisational frameworks across different registers

Authors: Martin Warren

Article #61(a):
A Corpus-based approach to the Modalities in Blood and Chocolate

Authors: Wesam Ibrahim and Mazura Muhammad

Article #62(a):
Gender Representation in Harry Potter Series: A Corpus-Based Study

Authors: Wesam Ibrahim and Amir Hamza

Article #64(a):
k dixez?: A corpus study of Spanish Internet orthography

Authors: Mark Myslín and Stefan Th. Gries

Article #65:
A Case Study of Economic Growth based on U.S. Presidential Speeches

Authors: Siaw-Fong Chung

Article #66:
The role of language in the discursive construction of belonging in Quebec: A corpus assisted discourse study of the Bouchard-Taylor Commission consultation briefs

Authors: Rachelle Freake

Article #72:
A Corpus-based Discourse Analysis of Global Warming in British, American and Chinese newspapers

Authors: Fang Wang

Article #75:
Analysing speech acts with the Corpus of Greek Texts: Implications for a theory of language

Authors: Dionysis Goutsos

Article #77(a):
Self Editing Using Online Concordance

Authors: Stephen Jennings

Article #78(a):
On Chinese Learners' Acquisition of English Tense Consistency - A Corpus-based Study

Authors: Xuemei Zhang and Yingying Yang

Article #80(a):
Keyness as correlation: notes on extending the notion of keyness from categorical to ordinal association

Authors: Richard Forsyth and Phoenix Lam

Article #83:
Colligational patterns in a corpus and their lexicographic documentation

Authors: Petra Storjohann

Article #84(a):
Hedges, boosters and attitude markers in L1 and L2 research article Introductions

Authors: Pilar Mur

Article #86(a):
A tool for finding metaphors in corpora using lexical patterns

Authors: Tony Berber Sardinha

Article #89:
'Give your eyes the comfort they deserve': Imperative constructions in English print ads

Authors: Elma Kerz

Article #94(a):
Toward automatic error identification of learner corpora: a DP-matching approach

Authors: Yukio Tono and Hajime Mochizuki

Article #95(a):
1 corpus + 1 corpus = 1 corpus

Authors: Adam Kilgarriff and Pavel Rychlý

Article #96(a):
Fat cats, bankers, greed and gloom - the language of financial meltdown

Authors: Del Barrett

Article #97:
A Corpus-Based Study of Pashto

Authors: Mohammad Abid Khan and Fatima Tuz Zuhra

Article #99:
Lexical Bundles in Classroom Discourse: A Corpus-Based Approach to Tracking Disciplinary Variation and Knowledge Construction.

Authors: Paul Doyle

Article #100:
Building the PDT-VALLEX valency lexicon

Authors: Zdenka Uresova

Article #101(a):
Subjunctives in the argumentative writing of learners of German

Authors: Ursula Maden-Weinberger

Article #102(a):
The British National Corpus and the archives of The Guardian: the influence of American phraseology on British English

Authors: Ramón Martí Solano

Article #103:
A corpus stylistic study of To the Lighthouse

Authors: Reiko Ikeo

Article #105:
How different is translated Chinese from native Chinese?

Authors: Richard Xiao

Article #106:
Speech Disfluencies in Formal Context. Analysis based on Spontaneous Speech Corpora

Authors: Leonardo Campillos and Manuel Alcantara

Article #107:
Using a parser as a heuristic tool for the description of New Englishes

Authors: Schneider Gerold and Hundt Marianne

Article #108(a):
Phraseology and Evaluative Meaning in Corpus and in Text: the study of intensity and saturation

Authors: Susan Hunston

Article #118(a):
Working with nonstandard documents: A server-based trainable fuzzy search-plugin for Mozilla Firefox

Authors: Thomas Pilz, Christoph Buck and Wolfram Luther

Article #123:
Syntactic annotation of transcriptions in the Czech Academic Corpus: then and now

Authors: Barbora Hladka and Zdenka Uresova

Article #124:
eHumanities Desktop - An extensible Online System for Corpus Management and Analysis

Authors: Rüdiger Gleim, Alexander Mehler, Ulli Waltinger and Olga Pustylnikov

Article #126(a):
A Corpus-Based Study of the Speech, Writing and Thought Presentation in Julian Barnes' ""Talking It Over"".

Authors: Brian Walker

Article #127(a):
A corpus-based study of invariant tags in London English

Authors: Eivind Torgersen and Costas Gabrielatos

Article #129:
The General and the Specific: Collocational resonance and scientific language

Authors: Geoffrey Williams and Chrystel Millon

Article #130:
A linguistic mapping of science popularisation: Feynman's lectures on physics and what corpus methods can tell us

Authors: Maria Freddi

Article #132:
A Corpus Approach to Images and Keywords in King Lear

Authors: maria cristina consiglio

Article #134:
Identifying speech acts in emails: Business English and non-native speakers

Authors: Rachele De Felice and Paul Deane

Article #135:
Exploring Imagery in Literary Corpora with the Natural Language ToolKit

Authors: Claire Brierley and Eric Atwell

Article #138:
A Corpus-based Comparison among CMC, Speech and Writing in Japanese

Authors: Yukiko Nishimura

Article #139(a):
Design and compilation of pedagogical corpora for secondary schools

Authors: Johannes Widmann and Kurt Kohn

Article #142(a):
The application of corpus linguistics to pedagogy: the role of mediation

Authors: Lynne Flowerdew

Article #144:
A Corpus-based approach to improve Arabic/English cross-language information retrieval

Authors: Farag Ahmed, Andreas Nürnberger and Ernesto William De Luca

Article #145:
The Use of Marginal and Complex Prepositions in Learner English

Authors: Tom Rankin and Barbara Schiftner

Article #150:
Corpora for all? Learning styles and data-driven learning.

Authors: Alex Boulton

Article #151(a):
Distinctive-collexeme analysis of an Italian epistemic construction

Authors: Irene Russo and Francesca Strik Lievers

Article #152(a):
Issues in Anonymising a Corpus of Text Messages: Whether, Why, Who, What and How?

Authors: Caroline Tagg

Article #153:
Natural Ontologies at Work: Investigating Fairy Tales

Authors: Ismaïl El Maarouf

Article #154(a):
Corpus Linguistics and Literary Translation: An impossible liaison?

Authors: Guadalupe Ruiz Yepes

Article #156:
Corpus-driven morphematic analysis

Authors: Vaclav Cvrcek

Article #161:
Distributional characterization of constructional meaning

Authors: Florent Perek

Article #162:
A comparative study of Phd abstracts written in English by native and non native speakers across different disciplines.

Authors: Genevieve Bordet

Article #163:
A quantitative corpus-based study of the position of clause-level syntactic functions in Spanish and its relationship with the type of clause, constituent and text

Authors: Maria Pilar Valverde

Article #165:
Multimodal Russian Corpus (MURCO): Types of Annotation and Annotator's Workbench

Authors: Elena Grishina

Article #167(a):
A multilingual annotated corpus for the study of Information Structure

Authors: Lisa Brunetti, Stefan Bott, Joan Costa and Enric Vallduví

Article #168:
Linguistically Informed and Corpus Informed Morphological Analysis of Arabic

Authors: Majdi Sawalha and Eric Atwell

Article #170:
Word Order Phenomena in Spoken French: A Study on four Corpora of Task-oriented Dialogue and its Consequences on Language Processing

Authors: Jean-Yves Antoine, Jerome Goulian, Jeanne Villaneau and Marc Le Tallec

Article #171:
Simple Maths for Keywords

Authors: Adam Kilgarriff

Article #172:
On the Distribution of English Reflexives

Authors: Makoto Shimizu

Article #174:
Corpora and EFL/ELT: Losses, Gains and Trends in a Computerized World

Authors: Adrian Ciupe

Article #176(a):
A combined corpus approach to the study of adversative discourse markers

Authors: Liesbeth Mortier and Liesbeth Degand

Article #180(a):
Nominalizations and nationality expressions: A corpus analysis

Authors: Daniel Berndt, Gemma Boleda, Berit Gehrke and Louise McNally

Article #181:
Mock trial and interpreters' choices of lexis --- issues involving lexicalization and re-lexicalization of the crime

Authors: Sachiko Nakamura and Makiko Mizuno

Article #182:
Investigating lexical convergence as a representativeness criterion in the National Corpus of Polish

Authors: Piotr Pezik and Lukasz Drozdz

Article #183(a):
Complementation patterns in causative verbs across varieties of English

Authors: Bertus van Rooy and Lize Terblanche

Article #184(a):
English-Spanish equivalence unveiled by translation corpora: the case of the Gerund in the ACTRES Parallel Corpus

Authors: Marlén Izquierdo

Article #186(a):
The Mandarin (Reflexive) Pronoun of SELF (zi4ji3) in Bible: A Corpus-based Study

Authors: Wang-Chen Ling and Siaw-Fong Chung

Article #187(a):
Register differentiation in East African English: a multidimensional study

Authors: Lize Terblanche, Bertus van Rooy, Ronel Rossouw, Christoph Haase and Josef Schmied

Article #188(a):
Metaphor, part of speech, and register variation: a corpus approach to metaphor in Dutch discourse

Authors: Tryntje Pasma

Article #190(a):
Modality in South African English: a historical and comparative study

Authors: Ronel Rossouw and Bertus van Rooy

Article #191:
Subcategorisation "inheritance": a corpus-based extraction and classification approach

Authors: Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski

Article #192(a):
Understanding culture: Automatic semantic analysis of a general Web corpus vs. a corpus of elicited data

Authors: Francesca Bianchi

Article #194:
The Corpus of Eighteenth-Century Texts: Towards the Construction of the Diachronic Corpus of Russian

Authors: Svetlana Savchuk

Article #198(a):
Institutional English in Italian university websites: The acWaC corpus

Authors: Silvia Bernardini, Adriano Ferraresi and Federico Gaspari

Article #200(a):
A function-first approach to identifying formulaic language

Authors: Philip Durrant

Article #202:
Large and noisy vs small and reliable: combining two types of corpora for valence extraction

Authors: Cécile Fabre and Anna Kupsc

Article #203:
Automatic Term Recognition as a Resource for Theory of Terminology

Authors: Dominika Šrajerová

Article #205:
RHECITAS: Citation analysis of French Humanities articles

Authors: Ludovic Tanguy, Fanny Lalleman, Claire François, Philippe Muller and Patrick Séguéla

Article #209:
AN.ANA.S.: aligning text to temporal syntagmatic progression in Treebanks

Authors: Miriam Voghera and Francesco Cutugno

Article #212(a):
A comparative study of binominals of the keyword democracy in corpora of the US and South Korean press

Authors: Minhee Bang and Seoin Shin

Article #213:
CLIPS: diatopic, diamesic and diaphasic variations of spoken Italian.

Authors: Francesco Cutugno and Renata Savy

Article #214:
Tracing the Sentential Complements of prevent through Centuries

Authors: Elina Sellgren

Article #218:
Featuring linguistic decline in Alzheimer's disease: a corpus-based approach

Authors: Pascual Cantos-Gomez

Article #222(a):
Using linguistic metaphor to express modality: A corpus study of argumentative writing

Authors: Claudia Marcela Chapetón Castro and Danica Salazar

Article #224:
Corpus-based derivation of a "basic scientific vocabulary" for indexing purposes

Authors: Lyne Da Sylva

Article #230:
Collecting spoken learner data: challenges and benefits

Authors: Joanna Jendryczka-Wierszycka

Article #233(a):
Analysing the output of individual speakers

Authors: Michael Barlow

Article #243(a):
A corpus analysis of English article use in Chinese students' EFL writing

Authors: Neil Barrett, Zhi-jun Yang, Yue-wen Wang and Li-Mei Chen

Article #245:
Building a Dynamic and Comprehensive Field Association Terms Dictionary from Domain-specific Corpora using Linguistic Knowledge

Authors: Tshering Cigay Dorji, Susumu Yata, El-sayed Atlam, Masao Fuketa, Kazuhiro Morita and Jun-ichi Aoe

Article #246(a):
Regrammaticalization as a Restrategizing Device in Political Discourse

Authors: Michael S Boyd

Article #248(a):
Constructing Relationships with Disciplinary Knowledge: Continuous Aspect in Reporting Verbs and Disciplinary Interaction in Lecture Discourse

Authors: Nick Endacott

Article #250:
An Empirical Survey of French, Latin and Greek Words in the British National Corpus

Authors: Alex Chengyu Fang, Jing Cao, Nancy Ide, Hanhong Li, Wanyin Li and Xing Zhang

Article #252:
Encoding Intonation: the Use of Italics and the Challenges for Translation

Authors: Peter Douglas

Article #256(a):
Blurring dichotomies. Why lexical semantics needs corpus analysis

Authors: Irene Russo

Article #260(a):
A GWAPs Approach to Collaborative Annotation of Learner Corpora

Authors: Huaqing Hong and Yukio Tono

Article #261:
Annotating a Multi-Genre Corpus of Early Modern German

Authors: Paul Bennett, Martin Durrell, Silke Scheible and Richard J. Whitt

Article #262(a):
Today and Yesterday: what has changed? Aboutness in American politics.

Authors: Denise Milizia

Article #263:
Introducing probabilistic information in Constraint Grammar parsing

Authors: Eckhard Bick

Article #264(a):
Frequency effects on the evolution of discourse markers in spoken vs. written French

Authors: Catherine Bolly and Liesbeth Degand

Article #267(a):
Mediated Modality: a Corpus-based Investigation of Original, Translated and Non-native ESP

Authors: Federico Gaspari and Silvia Bernardini

Article #269:
The SYN Concept: Towards One-Billion Corpus of Czech

Authors: Michal Křen

Article #276:
A Corpus of Ambiguous Biomedical Abbreviations

Authors: Mark Stevenson, Abdulaziz Alamri, Yikun Guo and Robert Gaizauskas

Article #279(a):
Lexical Priming and polysemous verbs - A critique

Authors: Fanie Tsiamita

Article #280:
A Parsimonious Measure of Lexical Similarity for the Characterisation of Latent Stylistic Profiles

Authors: Edward J. L. Bell, Damon Berridge and Paul Rayson

Article #282(a):
Use of Modal Verbs by Japanese Learners of English: A Comparison with NS and Chinese Learners

Authors: Shin'ihicro Ishikawa

Article #286(a):
Early Modern English Expressions of Stance

Authors: Beatrix Busse

Article #288:
A Browser-based Corpus-Driven Error Correction Tool for Individualized Second Language Learning.

Authors: Nai-Lung Tsao, David Wible and Anne Li-E Liu

Article #290(a):
A top-down approach to discourse-level annotation

Authors: Lydia-Mai Ho-Dac, Cécile Fabre, Marie-Paule Péry-Woodley and Josette Rebeyrolle

Article #291(a):
Word distance distribution in literary texts

Authors: Gemma Boleda, Alvaro Corral, Ramon Ferrer i Cancho and Albert Díaz-Guilera

Article #292(a):
Talking about risk in the MMR debate

Authors: Debbie Orpin

Article #293:
New Corpus Tools for Investigating the Acquisition of Formulaic Chunks in L2

Authors: Nai-Lung Tsao, Anne Li-E Liu and David Wible

Article #295:
An integrated environment for extracting and translating collocations

Authors: Violeta Seretan

Article #297(a):
WMatrix and the Language of Electronic Gaming

Authors: Vincent B Y Ooi

Article #301:
Extracting semantic themes and lexical patterns from a text corpus

Authors: Margareta Kastberg Sjöblom

Article #303(a):
The problem of authorship identification in African-American slave narratives: whose voice are we hearing?

Authors: Emma Moreton

Article #305:
Automatic grouping of morphologically related collocations

Authors: Fabienne Fritzinger and Ulrich Heid

Article #309:
Speaking in Piles: Paradigmatic Annotation of a French Spoken Corpus

Authors: Kim Gerdes and Sylvain Kahane

Article #312(a):
Building a Corpus-based Specialist Writing-aid Tool for Non-native Speakers of English

Authors: Alexandra Volanschi and Natalie Kübler

Article #314:
Automatic standardization of texts containing spelling variation, how much training data do you need?

Authors: Alistair Baron and Paul Rayson

Article #315:
Corpus-based identification and disambiguation of reading indicators for German nominalizations

Authors: Kurt Eberle, Gertrud Faaß and Ulrich Heid

Article #316(a):
Deductive versus inductive approaches to metaphor identification

Authors: Tina Krennmayr

Article #317:
Why prosodies aren't always present: insights into the idiom principle.

Authors: Gill Philip

Article #318:
Populating a framework for Readability Analysis

Authors: Neil Newbold and Lee Gillam

Article #319:
A corpus-based study of the phraseological behaviour of abstract nouns in medical English.

Authors: Natalia Judith Laso

Article #321(a):
Construction or Obstruction: A Corpus-Based Investigation of Diglossia in Singapore Classrooms

Authors: Huaqing Hong and Paul Doyle

Article #322(a):
Distance between words as an alternative way to model language

Authors: Justin Washtell and Eric Atwell

Article #323(a):
Comparing Forensic Linguistic Analysis against SVM Classification for Authorship Attribution of Newspaper Opinion Columns

Authors: Rui Sousa Silva, Luís Sarmento, Belinda Maia, Eugénio Oliveira and Tim Grant

Article #327(a):
Learning English Bare Singulars: Corpus Approaches for the L2 Classroom

Authors: Laurel Stvan

Article #329(a):
Patterns of verb colligation and collocation in scientific discourse

Authors: Sabine Bartsch

Article #330(a):
«What came to be called»: evaluative "what" and interpreter identity in the discourse of history

Authors: Marina Bondi

Article #331(a):
Establishing the phraseological profile of a text or text type

Authors: Ute Römer

Article #332(a):
Much ado about 'much', 'a lot' and 'a bit': quantifiers and colloquialization in 20th-century English

Authors: Nicholas Smith and Amy Yun-Ting Wang

Article #334(a):
A corpus-based approach to discourse presentation in Early Modern English writing

Authors: Dan McIntyre and Brian Walker

Article #336(a):
A Corpus-based Study on Gender-specific Words

Authors: Yuka Ishikawa

Article #337(a):
The Tatian Corpus of Old High German: Information-Structural and Grammatical Annotation

Authors: Svetlana Petrova, Julia Ritz, Amir Zeldes and Christian Chiarcos

Article #339(a):
Discourse functions of lexical bundles: isotextual comparisons

Authors: Oakey David

Article #341:
Nominalization in scientific discourse: a corpus-based study of abstracts and research articles.

Authors: Mônica Holtz

Article #342:
Putting corpora into perspective: Sampling strategies for synchronic corpora

Authors: Cyril Belica, Holger Keibel, Marc Kupietz, Rainer Perkuhn and Marie Vachková

Article #344(a):
The use of vague formulaic language by native and non-native speakers of English in synchronous one-on-one CMC

Authors: Julieta Fernandez and Aziz Yuldashev

Article #346:
Synergies between transcription and lexical database building: the case of German Sign Language

Authors: Thomas Hanke, Susanne Koenig, Reiner Konrad, Gabriele Langer and Christian Rathmann

Article #347(a):
Semi-automatic morphosyntactic tagging of a diachronic corpus of Russian

Authors: Roland Meyer

Article #348(a):
"According to the equation..." : Keyness in Chinese and British students' undergraduate assignments from UK universities

Authors: Maria Leedham

Article #350(a):
Nominal Coreference in translations and originals - a corpus-based study

Authors: Kerstin Anna Kunz

Article #351:
WriCLE: A learner corpus for Second Language Acquisition Research

Authors: Amaya Mendikoetxea, Michael O'Donnell and Paul Rollinson

Article #352(a):
A corpus-based reappraisal of the role of biomechanics in lexical phonotactics

Authors: Eleonora C. Albano

Article #358:
ANNIS: A Search Tool for Multi-Layer Annotated Corpora

Authors: Amir Zeldes, Julia Ritz, Anke Lüdeling and Christian Chiarcos

Article #363:
Corpus tagging of connectors: the case of Slovenian and Croatian academic discourse

Authors: Tatjana Balazic Bulc and Vojko Gorjanc

Article #364:
LIX 68 revisited - an extended readability measure

Authors: Katarina Mühlenbock and Sofie Johansson Kokkinakis

Article #367(a):
Civil partnership - "Gay marriage in all but name"!? Uncovering discourses of same-sex relationships

Authors: Ingo Bachmann

Article #368(a):
Using Data Mining to Trace Changing Association Patterns over Time

Authors: Rob Sanderson, Catherine Smith and Matthew Brook O'Donnell

Article #370(a):
Exploring morphosyntactic variation in Old Spanish with Biblia Medieval (a parallel corpus of Spanish medieval Bible translations)

Authors: Andrés Enrique-Arias

Article #371:
Annotating a Learner Corpus of English

Authors: Michael O'Donnell, Susana Murcia and Rebeca García

Article #372(a):
Tackling data insufficiency: Automatically extending a (richly annotated) data set

Authors: Daphne Theijssen, Nelleke Oostdijk, Hans van Halteren and Lou Boves

Article #373(a):
Exploring the variation and distribution of academic phrase-frames in MICUSP

Authors: Ute Römer and Matthew Brook O'Donnell

Article #376(a):
Who said what? Methodological issues in applying corpus-based methods to analyse online chat data

Authors: Paul Rayson, Phil Greenwood, Awais Rashid and James Walkerdine

Article #378:
Identifying discourse functions through parallel corpora

Authors: Pavlína Šaldová

Article #382(a):
Integration of Morphology and Syntax unsupervised techniques for language induction

Authors: Héctor Fabio Cadavid and Jonatan Gomez

Article #383:
How Reliable are Modern English Tagged Corpora? A case-study of modifier and degree adverbs in Brown, LOB, the BNC-Sampler, and ICE-GB

Authors: Owen Nancarrow and Eric Atwell

Article #386(a):
Discovering and exploring academic primings with academic learners

Authors: Przemyslaw Kaszubski

Article #387:
The evolution of institutional genres in time: the case of the White House press briefings

Authors: Amelia Maria Cava, Silvia De Candia, Giulia Riccio, Cinzia Spinzi and Marco Venuti

Article #389:
Capturing the generic structure of French linguistic articles with a focus on the core features of the genre

Authors: Céline Poudat

Article #392:
Lexical bundles in English abstracts: A corpus-based study of published and non-native graduate writing

Authors: Carmen Dayrell

Article #393(a):
Exploring Future Constructions in Old Spanish using the Biblia Medieval Parallel Corpus

Authors: Miriam Bouzouita

Article #394(a):
A corpus-based approach to the language of social services: identifying changes in the profession of the social worker and priorities in social problems.

Authors: Adriana Teresa Damascelli

Article #395(a):
A corpus-based analysis of reader positioning: Robert Mugabe as a pattern in the Guardian newspaper

Authors: Izaskun Elorza

Article #396(a):
Why to 'fill a niche' in Spanish is not a bad thing anymore: A corpus-based look at Anglicisms in Spanish

Authors: José L. Oncins-Martínez

Article #397:
Negotiating the agenda through the White House press briefings: a CADS analysis of important and importance in the Bush administration press briefings

Authors: Giulia Riccio

Article #398:
From a specialised corpus to classrooms for specific purposes

Authors: Reka Jablonkai

Article #399(a):
Making it plainer: revision tendencies in a corpus of edited English texts

Authors: Amanda Murphy

Article #400:
Spontaneity reloaded: American face-to-face and movie conversation compared.

Authors: Pierfranca Forchini

Article #401(a):
What they do in lectures is...: the functions of wh-cleft clauses in university lectures.

Authors: Katrien Deroey

Article #402:
Arabic Question-Answering via Instance Based Learning from an FAQ Corpus

Authors: Bayan Abu Shawar and Eric Atwell

Article #403(a):
Measuring formulaic language in corpora from the perspective of Language as a Complex System

Authors: Matthew Brook O'Donnell and Nick Ellis

Article #404:
Bigrams in registers, domains, and varieties: a bigram gravity approach to the homogeneity of corpora

Authors: Stefan Th. Gries

Article #405:
A Corpus-based Analysis of Conceptual Love Metaphors

Authors: Yesim Aksan, Mustafa Aksan, Taner Sezer and Türker Sezer

Article #406:
Arabic and Arab English in the Arab World

Authors: Eric Atwell

Article #414:
A classroom corpus resource for language learners

Authors: Gill Francis and Andrew Dickinson

Article #415(a):
"To be perfectly honest..." Patterns of intensifier use in speech and writing.

Authors: David Evans

Article #419(a):
Compiling and Exploring Frequent Collocations

Authors: Maria Moreno-Jaen

Article #426:
Visualising corpus linguistics

Authors: Paul Rayson and John Mariani

Article #427(a):
Corpus-driven study of underlying syntactic structures

Authors: Aleksandar Trklja

Article #428(a):
NOT-negation and NO-negation in Contemporary Spoken British English: A Corpus-based Study

Authors: José Ramón Varela Pérez

Article #430(a):
The Presence of Lexical Collocations in Bilingual Dictionaries. A study on Nouns Related to Feelings in English and Italian

Authors: Barbara Berti

Article #431(a):
Corpora and headword lists for learner's dictionaries: the case of the Spanish Learner's Dictionary DAELE (Diccionario de aprendizaje del español como lengua extranjera)

Authors: Araceli Alonso Campo and Elena Estremera Paños

Article #434(a):
A Corpus-based constructionist approach to the concept of fear in English

Authors: Ariadna Strugielska

Article #439(a):
Filling in the Gaps: supplementing modern diachronic corpora using WebCorpLSE

Authors:Andrew Kehoe

Article #441(a):
Edinburgh Academic Spoken English Corpus - tutor interaction with East Asian students in tutorials

Authors: Joan Cutting

Article #443(a):
Populism and democracy: the construction of meaning in the discourse

Authors: Wolfgang Teubert

Article #444(a):
Metaphors pop songs live by

Authors: Rolf Kreyer

Work-in-Progress Reports

Article #3(a):
A contrastive corpus-based analysis of the use of multi-word sequences in the written English produced by Spanish learners

Authors: Juan-Pedro Rica

Article #14:
N-gram classification in target corpus for context-based MT

Authors: Alejandro Curado-Fuentes, Martín Garay-Serrano, Héctor Sánchez-Santamaría and Elisabez Sánchez-Gil

Article #24(a):
'Diamonds may not be forever'. Keyness in discourse conflict: identifying indicators of persuasive stance.

Authors: Ersilia Incelli

Article #67(a):
Developing a curriculum for English language support for immigrant students using a corpus-based methodology

Authors: Stergiani Kostopoulou

Article #68:
Corpus-based Analysis of 'Master' in Translations of The Analects

Authors: Wang Yuanting

Article #70(a):
Corpus for Linguistic Resources Building and Maintenance (CLRBM): Architecture, First Experiments

Authors: Emmanuel Cartier

Article #82(a):
Lexical Priming in L2 English: a comparison of two Korean communities

Authors: Glenn Hadikin

Article #88(a):
The Brazilian Corpus: A one-billion word online resource

Authors: Tony Berber Sardinha, José Lopes Moreira Filho and Eliane Alambert

Article #113(a):
Compliments in MICASE

Authors: Tsuo-lin Chiu

Article #122:
Analyzing a corpus of documents produced by French writers in English: annotating lexical, grammatical and stylistic errors and their distribution

Authors: Camille Albert, Marie Garnier, Arnaud Rykner and Patrick Saint-Dizier

Article #128(a):
Corpus as control group: measuring writing development over an intensive EAP programme.

Authors: Steve Issitt

Article #131:
Creating A Corpus of Plagiarised Academic Texts

Authors: Paul Clough and Mark Stevenson

Article #147:
The Czech National Corpus - Looking Back, Looking Forward

Authors: Vera Schmiedtova

Article #169:
A Corpus-based Computational Model for Knowledge Representation of the Quran

Authors: Abdul-Baquee Sharaf and Eric Atwell

Article #175(a):
Using a Learner Corpus for Writing Program Evaluation

Authors: Andrew Nicolai Struc

Article #196:
Signaling text organization in French research articles - a cross-disciplinary study

Authors: Veronika Laippala

Article #221(a):
Annotated corpus of Karelian dialects: an interim report

Authors: Dmitri Evmenov

Article #242:
A New DBMS and Flexible POS Tagging for EFL Learners and Researchers

Authors: Takeshi Okada and Yasunobu Sakamoto

Article #259(a):
KWExT - A Prototype Keyword Extraction Tool

Authors: Mike Conway

Article #265(a):
A corpus of song lyrics - Is Robbie Williams too British for the US charts?

Authors: Susanne Handl

Article #268(a):
The SCONE Corpus of Northern English Texts

Authors: Gabriel Amores, Julia Fernández Cuesta and Luisa García García

Article #273(a):
Conversational Routines in the Learner's Thesaurus

Authors: Rebecca Langer

Article #274:
Multi-word Sequences in Motion

Authors: Andreas Buerki

Article #275(a):
An analysis of Japanese EFL learners' use and management of discourse strategies across different proficiency levels

Authors: Aika Miura

Article #287:
Compiling, annotating and publishing corpora in DK-CLARIN, the Danish incarnation of the pan-European initiative for a common resource infrastructure.

Authors: Jakob Halskov and Jørg Asmussen

Article #304:
Historical Searches. Latest Developments in the AAC-Austrian Academy Corpus

Authors: Hanno Biber, Evelyn Breiteneder and Karlheinz Moerth

Article #306(a):
Corp-Oral: a spoken corpus for European Portuguese

Authors: Fabíola Santos

Article #311:
Vis-À-Vis - a System to Compare Variety Corpora

Authors: Stefanie Anstein

Article #338:
Towards a Discourse Corpus of Czech

Authors: Lucie Mladová, Zuzanna Bedřichová, Šárka Zikánová and Eva Hajičová

Article #340(a):
Remission among the Mentally Ill: An Intertextual Study of Essentialist Discourse in Psychiatry

Authors: Laura Strakova

Article #343(a):
The Functional uses of Synonyms

Authors: Linda Bawcom

Article #365(a):
An analysis of user behavior following speech recognition errors in the Communicator corpus of human-computer spoken dialog

Authors: Svetlana Stoyanchev and Amanda Stent

Article #375(a):
"Whose truth?": Epistemic will in online news forums

Authors: Fiona Dalziel and Francesca Helm

Article #379(a):
Learners' Corpus-based Study of the Interface of Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics: A Case of Spanish Copular Verbs

Authors: An Chung Cheng and Hui-Chuan Lu

Article #385(a):
RRuDi - a Russian Diachronic Reference Corpus for Linguistic Research

Authors: Roland Meyer

Article #413(a):
A comparison of two English translations of A. Barea's The Forge. How can the computer help when the source text is missing?

Authors: Luis Sánchez-Rodríguez and José L. Oncins-Martínez

Posters

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Frames in Corpus Linguistics. Evidence from English and Russian

Authors: Elena Sokololva and Nataly Gridina

Article #37:
The terminology of the European Union's development cooperation policy - gathering terminological information by means of corpora

Authors: Judith Kast-Aigner

Article #54:
Introducing the BUiD Arab Learner Corpus: a resource for studying the acquisition of L2 English spelling

Authors: Mick Randall and Nicholas Groom

Article #76:
A Corpus Study of Lay-Professional Communication in Japanese Criminal Courts

Authors: Syugo Hotta and Junsaku Nakamura

Article #81:
Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing (CMSW)

Authors: Wendy Anderson, David Beavan and Jenny Bann

Article #87(a):
Recounting one's life with metaphors: a corpus-driven study

Authors: Tony Berber Sardinha

Article #90(a):
Assessing the processing burden of learner collocational errors

Authors: Neil Millar


Article #111:
A corpus-based categorization of Greek adjectives

Authors: Georgia Fragaki

Article #112(a):
Developing and Analysing the Engineering Lecture Corpus (ELC)

Authors: Lynn Grant

Article #116:
Multi-verbal expressions of 'giving' in Old English and Old Irish

Authors: Patricia Ronan and Gerold Schneider

Article #148:
Computerized Corpus of Old Catalan

Authors: Joan Torruella

Article #155(a):
Cross-cultural analysis of British and Brazilian newspapers: a corpus-driven study

Authors: Márcia Oliveira

Article #164(a):
A corpus-based study of science: tools for non-native speakers

Authors: Amelia Maria Cava

Article #193:
NKJP - The National Corpus of Polish

Authors: Adam Przepiórkowski, Rafał Górski, Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Marek Łaziński and Piotr Pęzik

Article #217(a):
An Insight into the Semantics of Directional Valency Complementation

Authors: Jana Sindlerova

Article #232(a):
Profiling scientific discourse using LSP corpora for English, German and French

Authors: Silvia Hansen-Schirra

Article #355(a):
DGS corpus project - Development of a corpus based electronic dictionary German Sign Language / German

Authors: Thomas Hanke, Susanne Koenig, Reiner Konrad, Gabriele Langer and Christian Rathmann

Article #369(a):
Creation of an Error-annotated Taiwanese Learners' Corpus of Spanish, CATE

Authors: Hui-Chuan Lu and Cheng-Yu Chang

Article #377(a):
Using a pedagogic corpus to prepare students for MA study in Applied Linguistics

Authors: David Oakey and Susan Hunston

Article #408(a):
Semantics and valency - the collocational strength of Polish verbs of movement and their arguments.

Authors: Rafał L. Górski

Article #418(a):
Using comparable and translated texts in contrastive corpus analysis: Thematisation as an example

Authors: Julia Lavid, Jorge Arús and Lara Moratón