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ICAME JOURNAL

Computers in English Linguistics

No. 20
April 1996

International Computer Archive of Modern English


Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities


Contents

Articles

Margareta Westergren Axelsson Contracted forms in newspaper language: Inter- and intra-textual variation 5
Pieter de Haan More on the language of dialogue in fiction
23
Gregory John Watson The Finnish-Australian English Corpus 41

Reviews

Peter Collins Aarts, Bas and Charles F. Meyer (eds.)
The verb in contemporary English: Theory and description.
71
Anne Wichmann Geoffrey Leech, Greg Myers, and Jenny Thomas (eds.)
Spoken English on computer: Transcription, mark-up and application
74
John Hutchinson and Ruthanna Barnett Fred Karlsson, Atro Voutilainen, Juha Heikkilä, and Arto Anttila (eds.)
Constraint Grammar: A language independent system for parsing unrestricted text
77
Vera Kamphuis Dieter Mindt
An empirical grammar of the English verb: Modal verbs
86
Pieter de Haan Christine Johansson
The relativizers whose and of which in present day English: Description and theory
91
Pieter de Haan Christer Geisler
Relative infinitives in English
91


A Tribute to W. Nelson Francis and Henry Kucera

Charles Meyer Introduction 99
Stig Johansson From Brown to LOB 100
Jan Aarts Grammatical annotation 104
Gunnel Tottie Grammar and corpus linguistics 107
Matti Rissanen Historical corpora 112


Shorter notices

Karen Lauridsen The Sixteenth ICAME Conference in Toronto (24 - 29 May 1995) 115
Merja Kytö and Matti Rissan English historical corpora: Report on developments in 1994 - 95 117
Gisle Andersen and Anna-Brita Stenström COLT: a progress report 133


ICAME services

Knut Hofland The CORPORA distribution list ver. 97
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Texts available through ICAME ver. 97
Programs available through ICAME ver. 97
The ICAME CD-ROM ver. 97
The Bergen CD-ROM Manager and LinguaFont ver. 97
ICAME bibliography ver. 97
Conditions on the use of ICAME corpus material ver. 97
Information for contributors ver. 97


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