Siberian Federal University

Issue

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2013 6 (1)

Authors

Mordovin, Alekseiy Yu.

Contact information

Mordovin, Alekseiy Yu.: Irkutsk State Linguistic University , 8 Lenina St., Irkutsk, 664025 Russia , e-mail:

Keywords

text corpus; corpus linguistics; history of linguistics

Abstract

The publication is devoted to the philosophical and theoretical background on development of the first computer-based text corpora in 1960s. The key methodological features of the corpus-based approach to language analysis and the key corpus functions are researched, including early approaches to corpus method, the young grammarians’ platform, the role of the corpus approach in structuralism, contribution of descriptive linguistics into the development of corpus method. This analysis tracks the development of prerequisites for the modern concept of the role of corpora in linguistic analysis throughout main text-centered linguistic theories encompassing the period from mid-XVII to mid-XX centuries. The article infers that apart from the apparent objective factors determining the development of the corpus method; all necessary theoretical preconditions for implementation of pro-corpus approach in the form of machine-based corpora were developing gradually.

Pages

50-61

Paper at repository of SibFU

https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/9480

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