Extending the Scope of Corpus-based Research: New Applications, New Challenges

List of contributors Preface I. Corpora and methodology Inge de MONNINK, Niek BROM & Nelleke OOSTDIJK: Using the MF/MD method for automatic text classification Sean WALLIS: Scientific experiments in parsed corpora: an overview Antoinette RENOUF: WebCorp: providing a renewable data source for corpus linguists Nelleke OOSTDIJK: Normalization and disfluencies in spoken language data Pam PETERS & Adam SMITH: Textual structure and segmentation in online documents II. Corpora in language description Maurizio GOTTI: Shall and will as first person future auxiliaries in a corpus of Early Modern English texts Arja NURMI: The role of gender in the use of MUST in Early Modern English Joybrato MUKHERJEE: From corpus data to a theory of talk units in spoken English Bernhard KETTEMANN, Martina KONIG & Georg MARKO: The BNC and the OED. Examining the usefulness of two different types of data in an analysis of the morpheme eco Goran KJELLMER: Lexical gaps Hajar Abdul RAHIM & Harshita Aini HAROON: The use of native lexical items in English texts as a codeswitching strategy Geoffrey SAMPSON: The structure of children's writing: moving from spoken to adult written norms III. Corpora in foreign language learning and teaching Mia BOSTROM ARONSSON: On clefts and information structure in Swedish EFL writing JoAnne NEFF, Emma DAFOUZ, Honesto HERRERA, Francisco MARTINEZ, Juan Pedro RICA, Mercedes DIEZ, Rosa PRIETO & Carmen SANCHO: Contrasting learner corpora: the use of modal and reporting verbs in the expression of writer stance Josef SCHMIED: Learning English prepositions in the Chemnitz Internet Grammar Pascual PEREZ-PAREDES: Integrating networked learner oral corpora into foreign language instruction