ABSTRACT

This collection of articles form a tribute to Jan Svartvik and his pioneering work in the field. Covers corpus studies, problematic grammar, institution-based and observation-based grammars and the design and development of spoken and written text corpora in different varieties of English.

chapter 1|6 pages

Introduction

part 1|56 pages

Goals and methods

part 2|29 pages

Corpus design and development

part 3|210 pages

Exploration of corpora

chapter 7|16 pages

Between and through

The company they keep and the functions they serve

chapter 8|17 pages

A mint of phrases

chapter 15|18 pages

Stylistic profiling

chapter 17|18 pages

Conversational style in British and American English

The case of backchannels

chapter 19|13 pages

A point of verb syntax in south-western British English

An analysis of a dialect continuum

part 4|12 pages

Prospects for the future

chapter 20|10 pages

Times change, and so do corpora