CONTENTS
Preface
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Corpus Linguistics
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Introduction
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The history of corpus linguistics
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3.1
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3.3
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3.5
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Preparation of corpora
Types of corpus
Versions of a corpus
Tagging
Normalisation
Text collation
Organisation of data
Using Cocoa headers
Tagging a corpus
Questions of distribution
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4.1
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Examining corpora
Concordances
Lexical cluster analysis
Statistics and corpora
Corpus linguistics and levels of language
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Sample analyses
Nonstandard second person plural pronouns
Aspectual forms in Irish English
Double marking for superlative and comparatives
Non-standard plural marking with demonstratives
Searching for collocations
The style of an author
Deciding oneself: seen and done as past tense forms
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II The Corpus Presenter Suite
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Frequently asked questions
The Corpus Presenter Guide
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Corpus Presenter
Programme description
Retrieving information
Normalising texts
Cocoa parameters
Range of files for a search
Menu options on the retrieval level
Search
Edit
Returns
Profile
Display
Miscellaneous
How to use the database module
Structure of a dataset file
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Corpus Presenter Create Dataset
Corpus Presenter Flash
Corpus Presenter Slide
Corpus Presenter Quick Note
Corpus Presenter Structure
Corpus Presenter Table Editor
Corpus Presenter Easy Chart
Corpus Presenter Launcher
Corpus Presenter File Manager
Corpus Presenter File Manager Lite
Corpus Presenter Quick Backup
Corpus Presenter Find Text
Corpus Presenter Catalogue
Corpus Presenter Diary
Corpus Presenter Control Centre
Corpus Presenter Database Manager
Corpus Presenter Make Database
Corpus Presenter Quick Database Editor
Corpus Presenter Report Database
Corpus Presenter Text Editor
Corpus Presenter Text Tool
Corpus Presenter Jotter
Corpus Presenter Word Processor
Corpus Presenter List Processor
Corpus Presenter Internet Editor
Corpus Presenter Browser
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III Appendixes
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Installing the Corpus Presenter suite
Installing the Corpus Presenter Database Manager
Common commands
Extended file interface
Troubleshooting
Additional dataset files
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Glossary for manual
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IV A Corpus of Irish English
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Introduction
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1.1
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Scale of corpus
The question of genre
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Periodisation of corpus
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2.2
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Medieval period
Early modern period
The 19th and 20th centuries
Structure of corpus
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Outline of external history
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3.1
3.2
Medieval Irish English
Early modern Irish English
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Historical documents
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4.1
4.2
Medieval period
Early modern period
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Archaic dialect material
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5.2
Forth and Bargy
Dialect of Fingal
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Early Modern Period
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Anonymous prose fragments
Attributable prose fragments
Further fragments
Extracts from non-Irish plays
Drama by Irish writers
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The 18th and 19th centuries
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The 20th century
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References
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Glossary for corpus
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Index
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