Re: [Corpora-List] Corpus linguistics in everyday life

From: Mike Maxwell (maxwell@ldc.upenn.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 17 2003 - 15:28:07 MET DST

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    Martin Wynne wrote:

    > Actually this isn't a case of corpora showing us the problem -
    > their intuitions about the phrase should have told them this.
    > All the corpus work is doing is to provide the evidence to
    > back up the intuitions.

    As a Bad Guy on this list (read: Generative Linguist), I had to chuckle. Of
    course the real point is that the two approaches are complementary, but
    still...

        Mike Maxwell
        Linguistic Data Consortium
        maxwell@ldc.upenn.edu

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