Collocation [electronic resource] : Applications and Implications /
Barnbrook, G.author.
Mason, O.author.
Krishnamurthy, R.author.
This book presents a comprehensive description of collocation, covering both the theoretical and practical background and the implications and applications of the concept as language model and analytical tool. It provides a definitive survey of currently available techniques and a detailed description of their implementation.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Tables and figures; Authors' note; Part I: The Historical Background; 1 The concept of collocation; 2 Collocation and language theory: the twentieth century; Part II: Implementation; 3 Computing collocations; 4 Extensions; Part III: Applications of Collocation; 5 Concordances and lexicography; 6 Pedagogy, translation and natural language processing; Part IV: Implications; 7 Collocation and language theory: recent developments; 8 Case studies; Appendix 1: Subcorpora of the Bank of English; Appendix 2: Case study 3: Concordances - dry, ground and land
Appendix 3: Computer programsBibliography; Index of names; Subject index
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
This book presents a comprehensive description of collocation, covering both the theoretical and practical background and the implications and applications of the concept as language model and analytical tool. It provides a definitive survey of currently available techniques and a detailed description of their implementation.
Syntax.
Discourse analysis.
Sociolinguistics.
Computational linguistics.
Lexicology.
Syntax.
Discourse Analysis.
Sociolinguistics.
Computational Linguistics.
Lexicology/Vocabulary.