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History, Features, and Typology of Language Corpora by Niladri Sekhar Dash,S. Arulmozi (auth.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This book discusses key issues of corpus linguistics like the definition of the corpus, primary features of a corpus, and utilization and limitations of corpora. It presents a unique classification scheme of language corpora to show how they can be studied from the perspective of genre, nature, text type, purpose, and application. A reference to parallel translation corpus is mandatory in the discussion of corpus generation, which the authors thoroughly address here, with a focus on Indian language corpora and English. Web-text corpus, a new development in corpus linguistics, is also discussed with elaborate reference to Indian web text corpora. The book also presents a short history of corpus generation and provides scenarios before and after the advent of computer-generated digital corpora. This book has several important features: it discusses many technical issues of the field in a lucid manner; contains extensive new diagrams and charts for easy comprehension; and presents discussions in simplified English to cater to the needs of non-native English readers. This is an important resource authored by academics who have many years of experience teaching and researching corpus li

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Author

Niladri Sekhar Dash,S. Arulmozi (auth.)

Publisher

Springer Singapore : Imprint : Springer

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9789811074578

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Linguistics, Language Learning, Literary Fiction