English Linguistics:
Applied Linguistics
How to use the COBUILD corpus (1)
How to use the COBUILD corpus (2)
Comparison with Dutch: the INL corpus
Reporting on your progress and findings
Output
One of the aims of the Applied Linguistics seminar is to involve students in the research that is carried out at the Department of Linguistics. More specifically, the topic of this seminar -- the English nominal group -- is also the topic of two ongoing research projects:
- A functional, lexicogrammatical description of the English nominal group (OT/00/00, Oct. 2000 - Sept. 2004)
- Categorization and instantiation in the nominal group: A functional approach to the English nominal group (FWO G.0218.01, Jan. 2001 - Dec. 2004)
The corpus extractions and analyses carried out by students partaking in this seminar provide the researchers involved in these and related projects with a wealth of material which remains electronically available, and some of which gets to be looked at in greater detail with a view to a publication. Depending on the amount of input on the part of the students, they may be asked to become co-authors of such publications.
Publications that have made use of material collected in the Applied Linguistics seminar include the following:
- Gordon Tucker (2001) Possibly alternative modality. Functions of
Language 8 (2): 183-216.
In this paper by one of the
members of the Leuven-based
Systemic-Functional
Research Community, reference is made to Nele Olivier's term paper on possibly and perhaps (2001). - Lieven Vandelanotte and Peter Willemse (2002) Restrictive and
non-restrictive modification of proprial lemmas. WORD 53 (1): 9-36.
Corpus examples of 'modified'
proper names collected for the
Applied Linguistics seminar (2000) are used in this article. - Lieven Vandelanotte (2002) Prenominal adjectives in English:
Structures and ordering. Folia Linguistica XXXVI (3/4): 219-259.
Both the Applied Linguistics
term papers of Pieter Vermeulen (2001) on the order of adjectives and of Jozef Glassée and Nick van
Leeuwen (2002) on compounds vs. Classifier-Noun sequences are referred to in this article. - Peter Willemse, Jesse De Meyer, and Kristin Davidse (2002) A
usage-note on gender-neutral their. Leuvense Bijdragen (Leuven
Contributions in Linguistics and Philology) 91 (1/2): 137-148.
This article flows from the
corpus research carried out by Jesse De Meyer on gender-neutral their
for the Applied
Linguistics seminar (2002). - Tine Breban and Kristin Davidse (2003) Adjectives of comparison: The
grammaticalization of their attribute uses into postdeterminer and
classifier uses. Folia Linguistica XXXVII (3-4): 269-317.
Reference is made in this article
to Nele Olivier and Sigi Vandewinkel's (2003) term paper on adjectives
of comparison and postmodifier structure for the Applied Linguistics
seminar. - Lieselotte Brems and Kristin Davidse (2003) Absolute and relative
quantification: Beyond mutually exclusive word classes. Belgian
Journal of English Language and Literatures New Series 1: 49-60.
Use was made for this article of
data collected and analyzed in the Applied Linguistics term papers
(2001) by Dorien Aerts on some, by An De Smedt on any, by
Anneleen Princen on few, and by Frederick Vandromme on much. - Liesbet Heyvaert, Hella Rogiers, and Nadine Vermeylen (forthcoming)
Pronominal determiners in gerundive nominalization. A 'case' study.
English Studies.
This article flows from the
corpus research carried out by Hella Rogiers and Nadine Vermeylen for
the Applied Linguistics seminar (2002).
Publications in the area of corpus research have not only flown from the Applied Linguistics seminar, but equally from corpus-based MA theses such as the following (the last three of which also deal with the nominal group):
- Sara Geyskens (1997) The ergativization of intransitives: A
lexico-grammatical description.
Article: Kristin Davidse
and Sara Geyskens (1998) Have you walked the dog yet? The
ergative causativization of intransitives. WORD 49.2: 155-180. - Anneke Noppen (1998) The lexicogrammar of the weather.
Article: Kristin Davidse
and Anneke Noppen (in press) FSP and the grammar of the weather in
English. In J. Hladky (ed.) Festschrift in honour of Jan Firbas.
Amsterdam: Benjamins. (16p.) - Chloë Heerman (2000) Reflexives as they manifest themselves: A
corpus-based typology of English reflexives.
Article making use of the data
collection provided in this thesis: Kristin Davidse (2002) English
reflexive constructions as a test case for distinct Agent-Patient
models. In K. Davidse & B. Lamiroy (eds.) The Nominative/Accusative
(Case and grammatical relations across language boundaries, 3).
Amsterdam: Benjamins. 187-230. - Tineke Tallir (2000) The postdeterminer: A corpus-based
investigation.
Article making use of the data
collection provided in this thesis: Breban and Davidse (2003)
(listed above) - Lieselotte Brems (2001) From Head to Quantifier:
Grammaticalization and delexicalization in Measure Noun constructions.
Article: Lieselotte
Brems (2003) Measure Noun constructions: an instance of semantically
driven grammaticalization. International Journal of Corpus
Linguistics 8 (2): 283-312. - Tine Breban (2002) Adjectives of comparison: Postdeterminer,
epithet and classifier uses.
Article (apart from Breban and
Davidse 2003 listed above): Tine Breban (2002/03) The
grammaticalization of the adjectives of identity and difference in
English and Dutch. Languages in Contrast 4 (1): 165-199.
For other corpus-based publications by members of the English Linguistics section (not flowing from collaboration with students), please refer to the English Linguistics website.
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