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Corpus Linguistics for Grammar provides an accessible and practical introduction to the use of corpus linguistics to analyse grammar, demonstrating the wider application of corpus data and providing readers with all the skills and information they need to carry out their own corpus-based research.

This book:

  • explores the kinds of corpora available and the tools which can be used to analyse them;
  • looks at specific ways in which features of grammar can be explored using a corpus through analysis of areas such as frequency and colligation;
  • contains exercises, worked examples and suggestions for further practice with each chapter;
  • provides three illustrative examples of potential research projects in the areas of English Literature, TESOL and English Language.

Corpus Linguistics for Grammar is essential reading for students undertaking corpus-based research into grammar, or studying within the areas of English Language, Literature, Applied Linguistics and TESOL.

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First published 2015

by Routledge

2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

and by Routledge

711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

2015 Christian Jones and Daniel Waller

The right of Christian Jones and Daniel Waller to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

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British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Jones, Christian (Linguist) author.

Corpus linguistics for grammar : a guide for research / Christian Jones,

Daniel Waller.

pages cm. (Routledge corpus linguistics guides)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. English languageGrammarStudy and teaching (Higher)Foreign

speakers. 2. English languageStudy and teaching (Higher)Foreign

speakers. 3. English languageGrammarResearch. 4. Second language

acquisitionstudy and teachingForeign speakers. 5. VocabularyStudy

and teaching (Higher) 6. Corpora (Linguistics) I. Waller, Daniel

(Linguist) II. Title.

PE1128.A2J6423 2015

420.188dc23

2015006152

ISBN: 978-0-415-74640-3 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-415-74641-0 (pbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-71377-9 (ebk)

Typeset in Baskerville

by Swales & Willis Ltd, Exeter, Devon, UK

AdjP Adjective phrase AdvP Adverb phrase BYU-BNC Brigham Young University - photo 1
AdjP Adjective phrase AdvP Adverb phrase BYU-BNC Brigham Young University - photo 2
AdjPAdjective phrase
AdvPAdverb phrase
BYU-BNCBrigham Young University and the British National Corpus
CEFRCommon European Framework of Reference for Languages
COBUILDCollins Birmingham University International Language Data base
COCACorpus of Contemporary American English
DDLData-driven learning
EAPEnglish for academic purposes
EFLEnglish as a foreign language
ESLEnglish as a second language
GloWbeCorpus of Global Web-Based English
HKCSEHong Kong Corpus of Spoken English
KWICKey word in context
MALUMobile-assisted language use
MI scoreMutual Information score
MICASEMichigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English
NPNoun phrase
PrepPPrepositional phrase
VOICEVienna-Oxford International Corpus of English
VPVerb phrase
WebCorp LSEWebCorp Linguists Search Engine
Routledge Corpus Linguistics Guides

Series consultants: Ronald Carter and Michael McCarthy

University of Nottingham, UK

Routledge Corpus Linguistics Guides provide accessible and practical introductions to using corpus linguistic methods in key sub-fields within linguistics. Corpus linguistics is one of the most dynamic and rapidly developing areas in the field of language studies, and use of corpora is an important part of modern linguistic research. Books in this series provide the ideal guide for students and researchers using corpus data for research and study in a variety of subject areas.

Ronald Carter is Research Professor of Modern English Language in the School of English at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is the co-series editor of the Routledge Applied Linguistics, Routledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics and Routledge English Language Introductions series.

Michael McCarthy is Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Nottingham, UK, Adjunct Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Limerick, Ireland and Visiting Professor in Applied Linguistics at Newcastle University, UK. He is co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics and editor of the Routledge Domains of Discourse series.

Corpus Linguistics for Grammar

Christian Jones and Daniel Waller

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Corpus Linguistics for Discourse Analysis

Michael Handford

Corpus Linguistics for Sociolinguistics

Brna Murphy

Corpus Linguistics for the Social Sciences

Tony McEnery, Amanda Potts, Vaclav Brezina and Andrew Hardie

Contents
Try it yourself 1.1
Suggested answers
  1. You would need samples of lectures from across disciplines and in seminars/tutorials. A million words would lead to a small but probably effective sample as this would be fairly focused, although this would take a considerable amount of time to collect and transcribe. A much smaller sample could be used if the lectures were from a single subject discipline.
  2. You would need samples from most or all of Dickens work to make statements about this as a whole. A million words are likely to be effective.
  3. You would need samples of requests by email and this would need to represent colleagues across an institution. The focus is quite restricted so perhaps 50,000 words would suffice.
Try it yourself 1.2

Answers (number of occurrences per corpus shown in brackets)

These answers are from the BYU-BNC corpus (http://corpus2.byu.edu/bnc).

Occurrences of opinions and judgement patterns in four corpora

PatternFiction corpusSpoken corpusNewspaper corpusAcademic English corpus

We can assume that...2 (4)3 = (0)3 = (0)1 (13)
Id say that...2 (10)1 (13)3 (3)4 (2)
You can be sure that...2 (3)3 (2)1 (4)4 (1)

Each pattern is of low frequency in each corpus but shows us that there is a clear difference in usage. We can see, for example, that there is a clear preference for the first pattern we can assume that in academic texts.

Try it yourself 1.3

Suggested answers from the BYU-BNC http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc.

Frequency of modal verbs in three BYU-BNC corpora

QuestionFrequency order (14) Shown for each corpus type in turn
General spokenAcademic EnglishFiction

Do I have to... ?242
Must I... ?423
Should I... ?111
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