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Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory Pub Date : 2020-04-20 DOI: 10.1515/cllt-2020-frontmatter2

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Light verb variations and varieties of Mandarin Chinese: Comparable corpus driven approaches to grammatical variations 汉语轻动词变化和变体:比较语料库驱动的语法变化方法

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Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory Pub Date : 2020-03-20 DOI: 10.1515/cllt-2019-0049

Hongzhi Xu, M. Jiang, Jingxia Lin, Chu-Ren Huang

引用次数: 9

Syntactico-semantic realizations of pronouns in the English transitive construction: A corpus-based analysis 英语及物结构中代词的句法语义实现:基于语料库的分析

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Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory Pub Date : 2020-03-07 DOI: 10.1515/cllt-2019-0061

Haerim Hwang

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A corpus-based analysis of meaning variations in German tag questions Evidence from spoken and written conversational corpora 基于语料库的德语标签问题意义变化分析——来自口语和书面会话语料库的证据

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Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory Pub Date : 2020-02-20 DOI: 10.1515/cllt-2019-0060

Yulia Clausen, Tatjana Scheffler

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Reconceptualizing register in a continuous situational space 在连续的情景空间中重新定义语域

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Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory Pub Date : 2020-02-13 DOI: 10.1515/cllt-2018-0086

D. Biber, Jesse Egbert, D. Keller

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The alternative negative constructions in spoken and written Korean: Logistic regression analysis 朝鲜语口语和书面语中的交替否定结构：Logistic回归分析

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Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory Pub Date : 2019-10-25 DOI: 10.1515/cllt-2016-0021

Beom-mo Kang

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Prototype-driven alternations: The case of German weak nouns 原型驱动的改变:德语弱名词的例子

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Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory Pub Date : 2019-10-25 DOI: 10.1515/cllt-2015-0051

R. Schäfer

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Against statistical significance testing in corpus linguistics 反对语料库语言学中的统计显著性检验

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Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory Pub Date : 2019-10-25 DOI: 10.1515/cllt-2016-0036

Alexander Koplenig

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Definite article bridging relations in L2: A learner corpus study 二语中定冠词桥接关系的学习者语料库研究

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Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory Pub Date : 2019-10-25 DOI: 10.1515/cllt-2015-0058

P. Crosthwaite

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Grammatical construction of function words between old and modern written Arabic: A corpus-based analysis 古今书面语虚词的语法结构:基于语料库的分析

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Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory Pub Date : 2019-10-25 DOI: 10.1515/cllt-2016-0069

Sultan Almujaiwel

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