This collection of articles form a tribute to Jan Svartvik and his pioneering work in the field. Covers corpus studies, problematic grammar, institution-based and observation-based grammars and the design and development of spoken and written text corpora in different varieties of English.
PART 1: Goals and methods: the state of the art in corpus linguistics, Geoffrey Leech1.2 Corpus studies and probabilistic grammar, M.A.K.Halliday1.3 Intuition-based and observation-based grammars, Jan AartsPART 2 Corpus design and development: toward a new corpus of spoken American English, Wallace L.Chafe, et al2.2 The development of the international corpus of EnglishPART 3 Exploration of corpora: between and through - the company they keep and the functions they serve, Graeme Kennedy3.2 A mint of phrases, Goran Kjellmer; collocational frameworks in English, Antoinette Renouf and John McH.Sinclair3.3 The modals of obligation and necessity in Australian English, Peter Collins3.4 A corpus-based study of apposition in English, Charles F.Meyer3.5 Syntactic evidence for semantic distinctions in English, Dieter Mindt; on having a look in a corpus, Gabriele Stein and Randolph Quirk3.6 On the exploitation of computerized corpora in variation studies, Douglas Biber and Edward Finegan3.7 Stylistic profiling, David Crystal3.8 Expletives in the London-Lund corpus,Anna-Brita Stenstrom3.9 Conversational style in British and American English - the case of backchannels, Gunnel Tottie3.10 On the history of that/zero as object clause links in English, Matti Rissanen3.11 A point of verb syntax in South-western British English - an analysis of a dialect continuum, Ossi IhalainenPART 4 Prospects for the future: times change, and so do corpora, Stig JohanssonAppendix: List of computer corpora.
