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Engelska ord ombord : nautisk ordbok : svensk-engelsk/engelsk-svensk : nautical dictionary : Swedish-English/English-Swedish
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Corpus linguistics 25+years on
No full textIn the history of English language research on computerised corpora, the year 1977 marks an important event with the birth of ICAME - the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English - which set off international co-operation on a large scale. The use of computer corpora, from being a fringe activity, has become a mainstream methodology. Yet there was corpus life also before ICAME. I have sometimes been asked why, in the unsupportive linguistic environment of the 1960s, I chose to become 'a corpus linguist' - there might have been moments when being so named felt like discovering your name on the passenger list for the Titanic. This contribution is very much a personal memoir of those early days when the first corpora were being compiled when computers were rare, expensive, unreliable and inaccessible to ordinary folk - huge machines located inside glass doors and operated by engineers dressed in white coats, and when CD only stood for Corps Diplomatique
A communicative grammar of English
No full textA Communicative Grammar of English has long been established as a grammar innovative in approach, reliable in coverage, and clear in its explanations. This fully revised and redesigned third edition provides up-to-date and accessible help to teachers, advanced learners and undergraduate students of English. Part One looks at the way English grammar varies in different types of English, such as 'formal' and 'informal', 'spoken' and 'written'; Part Two focuses on the uses of grammar rather than on grammatical structure and Part Three provides a handy alphabetically arranged guide t
