Re: Philosophical aspects of corpus linguistics

Adam Kilgarriff (Adam.Kilgarriff@itri.brighton.ac.uk)
Fri, 11 Oct 1996 13:59:14 +0100 (BST)

> I should read some literature on the philosophy or theory of
> corpus linguistics for my thesies. However most publications

There isn't any. Linguistics is about language. A corpus is a sample
of language. You don't get theory about samples. Corpus linguistics
might be a better way to do linguistics, but the theory is still going
to be about language.

;-)

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