Corpora: Out-of-print Corpus Linguistics books

From: ramesh@clg.bham.ac.uk
Date: Mon Jun 18 2001 - 13:59:48 MET DST

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    Dear colleagues,
    I have been trying to obtain some books on Corpus Linguistics for
    a colleague in India. One book is out of print, and the publisher
    has confirmed that no reprint is contemplated:
    > Aarts, J. and Meijs, W. (eds) (1984) Corpus Linguistics.
    > Amsterdam: Rodopi.

    Does anyone have a spare copy?
    Please let me know, and I will put you in touch with the
    colleague who wants it.

    However, I wonder whether this raises a more general issue
    for our young and rapidly growing discipline:
    as colleagues new to the discipline join us in many different
    parts of the world, and want to catch up on the background
    literature, what are they to do if books are unavailable?
    How do other disciplines cope with this?
    Is there a system for making out-of-print books more available?
    Should we think about providing such a system?

    I am currently engaged in helping to re-issue a major early
    work by one leading corpus linguist, and have recently heard
    about another early work that had very limited circulation when
    it was first published, and that the author, another leading
    linguist, would like to re-issue.

    If anyone has any ideas or suggestions for the maintenance and
    propagation of the background literature for Corpus Linguistics,
    I would be very interested to hear from them.

    Best wishes
    Ramesh

    Ramesh Krishnamurthy
    Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Corpus Linguistics, University of Birmingham
    Honorary Research Fellow, Computational Linguistics Group, University of Wolverhampton
    Consultant, Cobuild and Bank of English Corpus, Collins Dictionaries



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