Language Corpora : Past, Present and Future

Contents Acknowledgement List of abbreviations Introduction 1 Pre-electronic corpora -- a brief survey 2 History of text corpus generation 3 History of speech corpus generation 4 Indian scenario in corpus generation 5 Future Indian needs Appendix i Syllabus for corpus linguistics Bibliography IndexThis book presents a colourful history of corpus-based language study both of the past and the present with a focus on the future course of activities related to corpus generation and use in the Indian context A book of this kind was due for a long-time for scientific interested in language corpora for various aspects of linguistic research and application in a natural language It provides a good exp0orsurue to this new area of language investigation and inspires scholars to explore more about it with extra inquisitiveness It is written with a goal for addressing the needs of students and scholars coming from various fields of speech and language technology computational linguistics natural language processing general and descriptive linguistics phonology grammar psycholinguistics sociolinguistics semantics lexicography lexicology historical linguistics dialectology language teaching pragmatics discourse stylistics among others 176 pp.…