On the use of electronic corpora for theoretical linguistics. Case studies from the syntax of German

Lingua

Volumn 115, Issue 11 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 1619-1639

  Meurers, W Detmar ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corpora; Corpus annotation; Obtaining example data; Syntax; Theoretical linguistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 15544381065     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2004.07.007     Document Type: Article

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