Working with German Corpora with a foreword

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

Foreword

vii

John Sinclair

Editor's preface

xi

Bill Dodd

Note on language corpora and software

xiii

Ramesh Krishnamurthy

Bill Dodd

Notes on contributors

xxiii

Introduction The relevance of corpora to German studies

1

(39)

Bill Dodd

Corpus analysis in the service of literary criticism: Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften as a model case

40

(29)

Gordon J. A. Burgess

When Ost meets West: a corpus-based study of binomial and other expressions before and during German unification

69

(27)

Bill Dodd

German be- verbs revisited: using corpus evidence to investigate valency

96

(20)

Piklu Gupta

A corpus-based study of German accusative/dative prepositions

116

(27)

Randall L. Jones

Translators at play: exploitations of collocational norms in German-English translation

143

(18)

Dorothy Kenny

`Die schone Geschichte': a corpus-based analysis of Thomas Mann's Joseph und seine Bruder

161

(20)

Ann Lawson

Towards a corpus-based comparison of two journals in the field of business and management German

181

(18)

April Mackison

The ASTCOVEA German Grammar in conText Project

199

(18)

Peter Roe

An electronic corpus of Early New High German

217

(28)

Jonathan West

Rights and obligations in legal contracts: corpus evidence

245

(22)

Anne Wichmann

Jane Nielsen

Inflected and periphrastic subjunctive verb forms in German newspaper texts of the 1960s and 1990s

267

(30)

Nic Witton

Index

297

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