This volume offers a variety of viewpoints on the functional approach to the study of language. After an exposition of the Prague School functionalism, and Dik's and Halliday's functional approaches, it presents a wider area of issues from a functional point of view.
Linguists and engineers in Natural Language Processing tend to use electronic corpora more. This book gathers 21 papers on building and using parsed corpora raising relevant questions. It deals with a variety of languages and a variety of corpora. It is for those working in linguistics, computational linguistics, natural language, and grammar.
An authoritative general introduction to cognitive linguistics, this book provides up-to-date coverage of all areas of the field and sets in context recent developments within cognitive semantics and cognitive approaches to grammar.
This book in the Edinburgh Textbooks in Empirical Linguistics series is a comprehensive introduction to the statistics currently used in corpus linguistics.
Encompasses a broad spectrum of references to general bibliographical guides, bibliographies of Hispanic literature, literary dictionaries and encyclopedias, histories of Hispanic literatures, linguistics, and a guide to scholarly journals. Includes author and title indexes.
A work about language that moves from A to Z with one specially chosen word for every letter of the alphabet. It invites readers into the intimacy of language and allows us to delight in the ever-shifting glories of English.
The first dictionary of the Tuscarora language ever published, containing some 4, 000 main entries for particles, roots, and stems, which are illustrated by more than 20, 000 Tuscarora words.