W. Detmar Meurers and Stefan Müller
Chapter 42 in Lüdeling, A. and Kytö, M.: Corpus Linguistics. Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science (HSK), Volume 2. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 2009. 920--933.
Following an introduction characterizing the context of using corpora in syntactic research, we investigated how unannotated and annotated corpora can be searched to find data exemplifying patterns of interest to theoretical syntax. Based on three case studies making use of a syntactically annotated newspaper corpus, we illustrated that searching for relevant corpus examples can serve as an important component of empirically grounded syntactic research.
Electronically available file formats:
- .pdf (129074 bytes)
Note: The electronic versions of the publications linked on this page are the last versions I had the copyright for. Where a publisher copyedited and/or typeset the papers, the electronic copies linked here are NOT identical to the officially published version, which should be used for any quotes, references to page numbers, etc.
Bibtex entry:
@incollection{Meurers:Mueller:09,
author = {Meurers, Walt Detmar and Stefan M\"uller},
title = {Corpora and Syntax (Article 42)},
booktitle = {Corpus linguistics},
editor = {Anke L\"udeling and Merja Kyt\"o},
volume = {2},
publisher = {Mouton de Gruyter},
address = {Berlin},
pages = {920--933},
url = {http://purl.org/dm/papers/meurers-mueller-09.html},
year = {2009}
}