Approaching Language Variation through Corpora: A Festschrift in Honour of Toshio Saito (Paperback)

Contents: Geoffrey Leech: Foreword ? Shunji Yamazaki/Robert Sigley: Preface: Approaching Variation ? Stig Johansson: Interpreting Textual Distribution: Social and Situational Factors ? Robert Sigley: Assessing Corpus Comparability Using a Formality Index: The Case of the Brown/LOB Clones ? Sebastian Hoffmann/Robert Sigley: Approaching a Linguistic Variable: That-Omission in Mandative Sentences ? Graeme Kennedy: Semantic Preference of High-Frequency Mental Verbs in the British National Corpus ? Teruhiko Fukaya: Functional Variation in Use of Though and When Clauses ? Shunji Yamazaki: Comparing Adjective Comparison across Genre and Time in Standard Varieties of Modern English ? Matti Rissanen: On the Occurrence and Variation of the Adverbial Subordination Markers Þe and Þœt in Old English texts ? Toshio Saito: The Syntactic Development of the Gerund in Early Modern English: A Survey Based on the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Early Modern English ? Yoko Iyeiri: The Verb Pray in Chaucer and Caxton ? Satoru Tsukamoto: Defining Periods of Middle English by Measuring Rates of Language Change ? Pam Peters: Style and Politeness: The Case of the Personal Pronoun ? Masahiro Hori: Approaching Literature as a Corpus: Gender-Based Conversational Styles in Hemingway’s ‘Hills Like White Elephants’ ? Maria Stubbe: Active Listening in Conversation: Gender and the Use of Verbal Feedback.