Working with German Corpora: with a foreword by John Sinclair

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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. The relevance of corpora to German studies..............1 Goethes Die Wahlverwandtschaften as a model case..............40 a corpusbased study of binomial and other expressions before and during German unification..............69 using corpus evidence to investigate valency..............96 A corpusbased study of German accusativedative prepositions..............116 exploitations of collocational norms in GermanEnglish translation..............143 a corpusbased analysis of Thomas Manns Joseph und seine Brüder..............161