Re: Corpora:Imperatives

From: Atro Voutilainen (atro.voutilainen@conexor.fi)
Date: Tue May 02 2000 - 20:09:46 MET DST

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One method is to use a tagger: pick sentences with verbs analysed as imperatives.
Conexor's EngCG-2 (see language demo at http://www.conexor.fi) is one of the few
taggers that identifies imperatives.

Hopefully this helps.

Regards,
Atro Voutilainen
Conexor oy

miki wrote:
>
> Dear corpus linguists
>
> I am a graduate student majoring linguistics in Japan. Right now I am
> studying
>
> the categorization of the meanings of imperatives such as command, demand,
>
> suggestion, advice, wish etc. I don't know how to pick up only imperative
>
> sentences from the corpora. Both of BNC and Bank of English are available
>
> now. If someone knows the methodology of categorization of the imperatives
>
> in a sociolinguistic or cognitive linguistic way, please let me know about
> it.
>
> Takayuki Miki ( Hyogo University of Teacher Education )
>
> Mariko Udo ( Tutorial Professor )

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