Re: center embedding

Karl Teeter (kvt@husc.harvard.edu)
Fri, 15 Mar 1996 11:41:53 -0500 (EST)

Thanks a lot, SJ. I guess my problem is that having spent forty years
workign with actual real living native speakers, who produce nonending
corpora, I have little use for fixed corpora, which are guaranteed to
miss the overwhelming majority of grmamatical sentences...Yours,KVT
P.S. I am not Harvard, I only work there...

On Fri, 15 Mar 1996, SJ Stauffer wrote:

> On Fri, 15 March 1996, KVT wrote:
>
> >Dear SJ: Eh? Speaking as myself, I may occasionally be annoyed, but
> >not yet mad. Kindly explain, and thanks. Yours, KVT
>
> >>On Wed, 13 Mar 1996, SJ Stauffer wrote:
> >>
> >> Perhaps a mad hacker has commandeered KVT's account to post
> >> this series of messages? ;=)
> >>
>
>
>
> Karl, you had asked about the BNC sampler, saying
>
> > >As for the "BNC sampler" I don't know what it is, but give
> > >me a live speaker any day. Thanks. KVT
>
> My winking response was a (very fond) swipe at Harvard from
> Georgetown. All in good fun.
>
> The BNC Sampler is a 2 million word corpus, culled from the
> British National Corpus.
>
> <A HREF=http://info.ox.ac.uk/bnc>The BNC Home Page</A> says,
>
> This sample ... contain[s] the same mixture of text types
> as the BNC itself, but with a higher (50%) proportion of spoken
> texts.
>
> About the BNC itself, the home page says,
>
> The British National Corpus (BNC) is a 100 million word
> collection of samples of written and spoken language from a
> wide range of sources, designed to represent a wide
> cross-section of current British English, both spoken and
> written.
>
> Copies of the corpus are now freely available within Europe for
> research purposes only.
>
> --SJ Stauffer (the March Hare?)
>
> >> S. J. Stauffer <<<<<
> >>> Georgetown University <<<<
> >>>> STAUFFES@guvax.georgetown.edu <<<
>