List of tables
Table 2.1Overview of the corpus and data analyzed21
Table 3.1Linguistic forms, interlocutors, and speech roles45
Table 4.1Corpus overview55
Table 4.2Reference corpora62
Table 4.3Ratio of speakers in the parliamentary corpora65
Table 4.4Number of tokens uttered by the Prime Minister66
Table 4.5Number of tokens per female speaker67
Table 4.6
cqp queries in German, English, and French72
Table 4.7Lemma queries in German, English, and French75
Table 4.8Lexemes (word forms) retrieved through a cqp query in German,
English and French with txm, in decreasing order of frequency76