Working ith German Corpora ith a foreord by John Sinclair [Paperback]

The essays in this volume, writen by Germanists from Britain, Ireland, the USA and Australia, illustrate the enormous potential which corpus-based work has for German Studies as a whole and the rich diversity of work currently being undertaken. A detailed introduction explains basic concepts, methods, and applications of corpus-based work.

Foreword; John Sinclair Editor's Preface; Bill Dodd Note on language corpora and software; Ramesh Krishnamurthy and Bill Dodd Notes on contributors 1. Introduction: The revelavance of corpora to German studies; Bill Dodd 2. Corpus analysis in the service of literary criticism: Goethe's Die Wahlaverwandtschaften as a model case; Gordon J.A. Burgess 3. When Ost meets West: a corpus-based study of binomial and other expressions before and during German reunification; Bill Dodd 4. German be- verns revisited: using corpus evidence to investigate valency; Piklu Gupta 5. A corpus-based study of German accusative/dative prepositions; Randall L. Jones 6. Translators at play: exploitations of collocational norms in German-Engliah translation; Dorothy Kenny 7. 'Die schine Geschichte': a corpus-based analysis of Thomas Mann's Joseph und seine Bruder; Ann Lawson 8. Towards a corpus-based comparison of two journals in the field of business and management in German; April Mackison 9. The ASTCOVEA German Grammar in conText Project; Peter Roe 10. An electronic corpus of Early New High German; Jonathan West 11. Rights and obligations in legal contracts: corpus evidence; Anne Wichmann and Jane Nielsen 12. Inflected and periphrastic subjunctive verb forms in German newspaper texts of the 1960s and 1990s; Nic Witton Index