Jenny Thomas and Mick Short (eds), "Using Corpora for Language Research:
Studies in the Honour of Geoffrey Leech", Longman, Harlow. 1996.
(paperback or hardback)
This includes a chapter by Geoffrey Sampson, "From central embedding to
corpus linguistics", full of empirical evidence that centre embedding
is not absent from the real-life use of language.
Hopefully, anyone on the CORPORA mailing list responding to Rob Freeman's
request for "other similar 'arbitrary' restrictions" might also provide
some Corpus citations of exceptions that break these restrictions!
Eric Atwell
PS I have to confess: (*) Geoff Leech's 60th Birthday Festschrift also
includes a chapter I contributed, on research he indirectly inspired at Leeds...
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Eric Steven Atwell,
Centre for Computer Analysis of Language And Speech (CCALAS)
Artificial Intelligence Division, School of Computer Studies
The University of Leeds, LEEDS LS2 9JT, Yorkshire, England
TEL:0113-2335761 FAX:0113-2335468 EMAIL:eric@scs.leeds.ac.uk
WWW: http://agora.leeds.ac.uk/nti-kbs/ccalas.html
FROM SEPTEMBER 1996:
Research Professor, School of Computing and Information Systems,
University of SUNDERLAND, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England
WWW: http://osiris.sunderland.ac.uk/
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