International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volume 14, Issue 1 (2009)

2009. 140 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.14.1

Table of Contents

Editorial	1
Articles
Automatic measurement of syntactic complexity in child language acquisition Xiaofei Lu	3–28
Keyness: Words, parts-of-speech and semantic categories in the character-talk of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet Jonathan Culpeper	29–59
Gei constructions in Mandarin Chinese and bei constructions in Cantonese: A corpus-driven contrastive study May L-Y Wong	60–80
Where do we backchannel? On the use of mm, mhm, uh huh and such like Göran Kjellmer	81–112
Spoken Corpora Design: Their Constitutive Parameters František Čermák	113–123
Book Reviews
Review of Atkins & Rundell (2008): The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography & Fontenelle (2008): Practical Lexicography: A Reader: The practical art of lexicography Reviewed by Geoffrey Williams	125–132
Review of Webster (2008): Meaning in Context: Implementing Intelligent Applications of Language Studies Reviewed by Baocui Lou	133–137

Subjects

Linguistics

Computational & corpus linguistics