Abstract
The present paper argues that analyses of language use provide an important complementary perspective to traditional linguistic descriptions, and that empirical approaches are required for such investigations. Corpus-based techniques are particularly well suited to these research purposes, enabling investigation of research questions that were previously disregarded. Specifically, the paper discusses the use of corpus-based techniques to identify and analyze complex “association patterns”: the systematic ways in which linguistic features are used in association with other linguistic and non-linguistic features. Several illustrative analyses are discussed, investigating the use of lexical features, grammatical features, and the overall patterns of variability among texts and registers.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 171-197 |
Number of pages | 27 |
Journal | International Journal of Corpus Linguistics |
Volume | 1 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1996 |
Keywords
- Association patterns
- Collocations
- Grammatical analysis
- Language use
- Lexical analysis
- Register variation
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Language and Linguistics
- Linguistics and Language