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A Universal and Critical Dictionary of the English Language

Corpus-based Studies in Language Use, Language Learning, and Language Documentation

Drawn from papers delivered at the October, 2009 conference of the American Association for Corpus Linguistics, held in Edmonton, Canada, this collection of thirteen articles showcases current scholarship in empirical linguistics. Divided into sections discussing language use, learning, and documentation, topics addressed include the use of the past tense as past participles in the English corpora, syntactic aspects of writings of Swedish students learning English, and the expanding horizons of corpus analysis. Contributors include academics in linguistics from North American, Asian and European universities. Price is converted from euros. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).