Corpus Linguistics by the Lune: A Festschrift for Geoffrey Leech (Paperback)

Contents: Bas Aarts/Evelien Keizer/Mariangela Spinillo/Sean Wallis: Which or what? A study of interrogative determiners in present-day English ? Karin Aijmer: Discourse particles in contrast: the case of in fact and actually ? Dawn Archer/Jonathan Culpeper: Sociopragmatic annotation: New directions and possibilities in historical corpus linguistics ? Ylva Berglund/Oliver Mason: ≪But this formula doesn’t mean anything...!?≫ ? Douglas Biber/Susan Conrad/Viviana Cortes: Lexical bundles in speech and writing: an initial taxonomy ? Raymond Hickey: Tracking lexical change in present-day English ? Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk/Michael P. Oakes/Paul Rayson: Annotated Corpora for Assistance with English-Polish Translation ? Stanley E. Porter/Matthew B. O’Donnell: Theoretical issues for corpus linguistics and the study of ancient languages ? Helena Raumolin-Brunberg: Temporal aspects of language change: what can we learn from the CEEC? ? Geoffrey Sampson: Reflections of a dendrographer ? Hans-Jorg Schmid: Do women and men really live in different cultures? Evidence from the BNC ? Mark Sebba/Susan Dray: Is it Creole, is it English, is it valid? Developing and using a corpus of unstandardised written language ? Mick Short: A Corpus-based Approach to Speech, Thought and Writing Presentation ? Jean Veronis: Sense tagging: does it make sense? ? Anne Wichmann/Richard Cauldwell: Wh Questions and attitude: the effect of context.