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I Corpus Linguistics 1

1 Introduction 1

2 The history of corpus linguistics 2

3 Preparation of corpora 4
3.1 Types of corpus 4
3.2 Versions of a corpus 4
3.2.1 Tagging 5
3.2.2 Normalisation 5
3.2.3 Text collation 6
3.3 Organisation of data 6
3.4 Using Cocoa headers 7
3.5 Tagging a corpus 8
3.6 Questions of distribution 9

4 Examining corpora 11
4.1 Concordances 12
4.2 Lexical cluster analysis 12
4.3 Statistics and corpora 12
4.4 Corpus linguistics and levels of language 13

5 Sample analyses 14
5.1 Nonstandard second person plural pronouns 14
5.2 Aspectual forms in Irish English 17
5.3 Double marking for superlative and comparatives 19
5.4 Non-standard plural marking with demonstratives 20
5.5 Searching for collocations 22
5.6 The style of an author 24
5.7 Deciding oneself: seen and done as past tense forms 26




II The Corpus Presenter Suite 28

Frequently asked questions 36
The Corpus Presenter Guide 47

1 Corpus Presenter 48
1.1 Programme description 50
1.2 Retrieving information 70
1.3 Normalising texts 72
1.4 Cocoa parameters 76
1.5 Range of files for a search 77
1.6 Menu options on the retrieval level 78
1.6.1 Search 78
1.6.2 Edit 80
1.6.3 Returns 81
1.6.4 Profile 82
1.6.5 Display 82
1.6.6 Miscellaneous 84
1.7 How to use the database module 86
1.8 Structure of a dataset file 91

2 Corpus Presenter Create Dataset 96
3 Corpus Presenter Flash 100
4 Corpus Presenter Slide 104
5 Corpus Presenter Quick Note 106
6 Corpus Presenter Structure 107
7 Corpus Presenter Table Editor 108
8 Corpus Presenter Easy Chart 111
9 Corpus Presenter Launcher 115
10 Corpus Presenter File Manager 116
11 Corpus Presenter File Manager Lite 120
12 Corpus Presenter Quick Backup 121
13 Corpus Presenter Find Text 122
14 Corpus Presenter Catalogue 123
15 Corpus Presenter Diary 126
16 Corpus Presenter Control Centre 128
17 Corpus Presenter Database Manager 128




18 Corpus Presenter Make Database 136
19 Corpus Presenter Quick Database Editor 138
20 Corpus Presenter Report Database 146
21 Corpus Presenter Text Editor 151
22 Corpus Presenter Text Tool 159
23 Corpus Presenter Jotter 166
24 Corpus Presenter Word Processor 167
25 Corpus Presenter List Processor 174
26 Corpus Presenter Internet Editor 175
27 Corpus Presenter Browser 182

III Appendixes

1 Installing the Corpus Presenter suite 184
2 Installing the Corpus Presenter Database Manager 189
3 Common commands 190
4 Extended file interface 201
5 Troubleshooting 205
6 Additional dataset files 208

Glossary for manual 210


IV A Corpus of Irish English 237


1 Introduction 238
1.1 Scale of corpus 239
1.2 The question of genre 240

2 Periodisation of corpus 241
2.1 Medieval period 241
2.2 Early modern period 242
2.3 The 19th and 20th centuries 242
2.4 Structure of corpus 243
3 Outline of external history 245
3.1 Medieval Irish English 245
3.2 Early modern Irish English 248