Language and Computers

Studies in Practical Linguistics

For more than two decades following the "Chomskyan revolution" in the late fifties the emphasis in linguistics was almost exclusively on theoretical issues. The turbulent growth, over the past fifteen years or so, of computer science and in its wake the rise of language technology has led to a renewed interest in practical applications of linguistic theory. Word-processing, text-comprehension, dialogue systems, expert systems, (semi-)automatic translation, speech recognition and speech synthesis are all areas in which insights derived from linguistics are playing an increasingly important role. These new insights have been gained from corpus linguistics, work on automatic syntactic analysis, machine readable dictionaries etc.
The Language and Computers series aims to function as a platform for original and stimulating work in this wide and varied field. The essential ingredients characterizing the volumes in the series are already apparent from its title: As studies in linguistics they have, by definition, their foundations in linguistic theory; however, they are not concerned with theory for theory's sake, but always with a definite direct or indirect interest in the possibilities of practical application in this dynamic area where language and computers meet.
Corpus Linguistics and Sociolinguistics
A Study of Variation and Change in the Modal Systems of World Englishes
Volume 82
978-90-04-38152-0
Corpora and Lexis
Volume 81
978-90-04-36113-3
Corpus linguistics on the move
Exploring and understanding English through corpora
Volume 79
978-90-04-32134-2
Recent Advances in Corpus Linguistics
Developing and Exploiting Corpora
Volume 78
978-94-012-1113-0
English Corpus Linguistics: Variation in Time, Space and Genre
Selected papers from ICAME 32
Volume 77
978-94-012-0940-3
Corpus Linguistics and Variation in English
Theory and Description
Volume 75
978-94-012-0771-3
English Corpus Linguistics: Looking back, Moving forward
Papers from the 30th International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 30). Lancaster, UK, 27-31 May 2009
Volume 74
978-94-012-0747-8
The Progressive in Modern English
A Corpus-Based Study of Grammaticalization and Related Changes
Volume 72
978-90-420-3144-9
Corpus-linguistic applications
Current studies, new directions
Volume 71
978-90-420-2801-2
Corpus Linguistics
Refinements and Reassessments
Volume 69
978-90-420-2598-1
Corpora: Pragmatics and Discourse
Papers from the 29th International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 29). Ascona, Switzerland, 14-18 May 2008
Volume 68
978-90-420-2910-1
Modals and Quasi-modals in English
Volume 67
978-90-420-2909-5
Non-finite Complementation
A usage-based study of infinitive and -ing clauses in English
Volume 65
978-94-012-0554-2
Language, People, Numbers
Corpus Linguistics and Society
Volume 64
978-94-012-0547-4
Variation and change in the lexicon
A corpus-based analysis of adjectives in English ending in -ic and -ical
Volume 63
978-94-012-0464-4
Corpus Linguistics 25 Years on
Volume 62
978-94-012-0434-7
Corpora in the Foreign Language Classroom
Selected papers from the Sixth International Conference on Teaching and Language Corpora (TaLC 6). University of Granada, Spain, 4-7 July, 2004
Volume 61
978-94-012-0390-6
Corpus Linguistics Beyond the Word
Corpus Research from Phrase to Discourse
Volume 60
978-94-012-0384-5
Corpus Linguistics and the Web
Volume 59
978-94-012-0379-1
English mediopassive constructions
A cognitive, corpus-based study of their origin, spread, and current status
Volume 58
978-94-012-0378-4
The Phraseology of Administrative French
A Corpus-based Study
Volume 57
978-94-012-0312-8
Corpus linguistics around the world
Volume 56
978-94-012-0221-3
The Changing Face of Corpus Linguistics
Volume 55
978-94-012-0179-7
The progressive in 19th-century English
A process of integration
Volume 54
978-90-04-33308-6
English Ditransitive Verbs
Aspects of Theory, Description and a Usage-based Model
Volume 53
978-90-04-33307-9
Extending the scope of corpus-based research
New applications, new challenges
Volume 48
978-90-420-2924-8
Postmodifying Clauses in the English Noun Phrase
A Corpus-Based Study
Volume 3
978-94-012-0776-8
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