Exploiting the Corpus of East-African English
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Abstract
This contribution summarises the current status and future plans for the Corpus of East African English (ICE-EA), which is part of the International Corpus of English (cf. Greenbaum 1996, Schmied 1996 and forthcoming). It concentrates on methodological problems that are related to the exploitation tools on several discovery levels, starting from the individual corpus text through the entire ICE-EA up to the World-Wide Web as a corpus (Schmied 2005). It shows that the investigations using ICE corpora for comparative theoretical and practical analyses of second-language varieties of English has hardly started, but also that interesting new research opportunities are available.