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The book introduces the reader to the central areas of English linguistics. The main sections are: the English language and linguistics - sounds - meaning-carrying units - sentences: models of grammar - meaning - utterances - variation. Notably, the book is written from a foreign student's perspective of the English language, i.e. aspects relevant to foreign language teaching receive particular attention. A great deal of emphasis is put on the insights to be gained from the analysis of corpora, especially with respect to the idiomatic character of language (idiom principle, valency approach).

Didactics of English --- English language --- Language and languages. --- Linguistics. --- EFL (English as a foreign language) --- English as a foreign language --- English as a second language --- English to speakers of other languages --- ESL (English to speakers of other languages) --- ESOL (English to speakers of other languages) --- TESL (English to speakers of other languages) --- Foreign languages --- Languages --- Anthropology --- Communication --- Ethnology --- Information theory --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philology --- Linguistics --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Language and languages --- Lexicología y Semántica Inglesas (31103209) --- Bibliografía recomendada --- UmU kursbok --- Germanic languages --- Academic Textbook. --- English /Language.

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In recent years, research on valency has led to important insights into the nature of language. Some of these findings are published in this volume for the first time with up-to-date accounts of language description and new reflections on language, above all for English and German. The volume also presents examples of contrastive analysis, which are of use for all those who deal professionally with these two languages. Furthermore, the articles in the psycholinguistic and computational linguistics section demonstrate the applicability and value of valency theory for these approaches and shed light on a fruitful cooperation between theoretical and descriptive linguistics and applied disciplines. The papers cover the following aspects of valency analysis: (i) theoretical aspects of the valency approach in relation to related theories of complementation (dependency syntax, FrameNet, case roles), (ii) descriptive aspects of valency and complementation, (iii) valency as a concept for the description of cognitive processes in syntactic processing, (iv) contrastive aspects of valency, above all for English and German, and (v) possible computational applications of the valency concept in fields such as automatic syntactic recognition or language processing. The volume combines papers of representatives from different linguistic schools on the topic of complementation. One of the aims is to show how concepts developed for the analysis of one language, in the case of valency often German, can be applied to other languages such as English.

Lexicology. Semantics --- Grammar --- Psycholinguistics --- Cognitive grammar. --- Contrastive linguistics. --- Computational linguistics. --- Semantics --- Dependency grammar. --- Semantics. --- Grammaire de dépendance --- Grammaire cognitive --- Linguistique contrastive --- Linguistique informatique --- Sémantique --- Cognitive grammar --- Computational linguistics --- Contrastive linguistics --- Dependency grammar --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Language and languages --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Valence (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Mathematical linguistics --- Linguistics --- Automatic language processing --- Language data processing --- Natural language processing (Linguistics) --- Applied linguistics --- Cross-language information retrieval --- Multilingual computing --- Cognitive linguistics --- Syntax --- Data processing --- Valency, syntax, semantics.

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This volume presents the results of the international symposium Chunks in Corpus Linguistics and Cognitive Linguistics, held at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg to honour John Sinclair's contribution to the development of linguistics in the second half of the twentieth century. The main theme of the book, highlighting important aspects of Sinclair's work, is the idiomatic character of language with a focus on chunks (in the sense of prefabricated items) as extended units of meaning. To pay tribute to Sinclair's enormous impact on research in this field, the volume contains two contributions which deal explicitly with his work, including material from unpublished manuscripts. Beyond that, the articles cover different aspects of chunks ranging from more theoretically-oriented to more applied papers, in which foreign language teaching and the computational application of the insights about the nature of language provided by corpus research play an important role. The volume demonstrates the wide applicability and relevance of the notion of chunks by bringing together research from different fields of linguistics such as theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics and foreign language teaching, and thus provides an interdisciplinary view on the impact of idiomaticity in language.

Discourse analysis --- Computational linguistics --- Linguistics --- Methodology --- Discourse analysis. --- Discoursanalyse. --- Computerlinguïstiek. --- Computational linguistics. --- Collocaties. --- Idioom. --- Fraseología. --- Methodology. --- Mathematical linguistics --- Artificial intelligence. Robotics. Simulation. Graphics --- Pragmatics --- Festschrift - Libri Amicorum --- Automatic language processing --- Language and languages --- Language data processing --- Natural language processing (Linguistics) --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Data processing --- Applied linguistics --- Cross-language information retrieval --- Multilingual computing --- Semantics --- Semiotics --- Cognitive Linguistics. --- Corpus Linguistics. --- Analyse du discours --- Linguistique --- Informatique --- Linguistics - Methodology

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Since the beginning of her career, Professor Sabine De Knop has been doing research within the frameworks of Cognitive and Contrastive Linguistics and has mainly distinguished herself in three research areas: Language & Cognition, Construction Grammar and Applied linguistics. This volume brings together a range of contributions which open up new perspectives on these three topics, either within one language or from a contrastive perspective. They are written by linguists who have worked with Professor Sabine De Knop at some point in her career. The papers propose new theoretical and empirical insights as well as innovative pedagogical practices in the fields of language and proficiency. Professorin Sabine De Knop arbeitet seit Beginn ihrer Karriere im Bereich der kognitiven und kontrastiven Linguistik und zeichnet sich vor allem in drei Forschungsbereichen aus: Sprache & Kognition, Konstruktionsgrammatik und Angewandte Linguistik & Fremdsprachendidaktik. Diese Festschrift besteht aus einer Reihe von Beiträgen, die sich mit einer oder mehreren Sprachen befassen und ein neues Licht auf diese drei Themen werfen. Die Beiträge stammen von SprachwissenschaftlerInnen, die im Laufe ihrer Karriere mit Professorin Sabine De Knop zusammengearbeitet haben, und diskutieren sowohl theoretische und empirische Erkenntnisse als auch innovative pädagogische Ansätze in der Fremdsprachendidaktik.

Language & Linguistics --- Linguistique cognitive --- Linguistique contrastive --- Grammaire de construction --- Didactique des langues étrangères --- Cognitive Linguistics --- Contrastive Linguistics --- Construction Grammar --- Foreign Language Teaching --- Kognitive Linguistik --- Kontrastive Linguistik --- Konstuktionsgrammatik --- Fremdsprachendidaktik