Quantitative Corpus Linguistics with R

Stefan Th. Gries is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.

Acknowledgments


1. Introduction


1.1 Why Another Introduction to Corpus Linguistics?


1.2 Outline of the Book


1.3 Recommendation for Instructors


2. Three Central Corpus-linguistic Methods


2.1 Corpora


2.2 Frequency Lists


2.3 Lexical Co-occurrence: Collocations


2.4 (Lexico-)Grammatical Co-occurence: Concordances


3. An Introduction to R


3.1 A few Central Notions: Data structures, Functions, and Arguments


3.2 Vectors


3.3 Factors


3.4 Data Frames


3.5 Lists


3.6 Elementary Programming Functions


3.7 Character/String Processing


3.8 File and Directory Operations


4. Using R in Corpus Linguistics


4.1 Frequency Lists


4.2 Concordances


4.3 Collocations


4.4 Excursus 1: Processing Multi-tiered Corpora


4.5 Excursus 2: Unicode


5. Some Statistics for Corpus Linguistics


5.1 Introduction to Statistical Thinking


5.2 Categorical Dependent Variables


5.3 Interval/Ratio Dependent Variables


5.4 Customizing Statistical Plots


5.5 Reporting Results


6. Case Studies and Pointers to Other Applications


6.1 Introduction to the Case Studies


6.2 Some Pointers to Further Applications


Appendix


References


Endnotes


Index