System and Corpus - Exploring Connections - Geoff Thompson †
Corpus analysis: the state of the art and three types of unanswered questions
System and Corpus - Exploring Connections - Geoff Thompson †
Michael Stubbs
University of Trier
Description
I will discuss ways of using corpora to study the extent and strength of phraseology in English, and will then argue that evidence from these empirical studies can be used to tackle some long-standing unanswered questions relating to how language relates to cognitive and social systems.