Defining Language

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Defining Language

Defining Language
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages : 308
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ISBN-10 : 1588112985
ISBN-13 : 9781588112989
Rating : 4/5 (989 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Defining Language by : Geoff Barnbrook

Download or read book Defining Language written by Geoff Barnbrook and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes an investigation of the subset of general language used in definition sentences and the development of a taxonomy of definition types, a grammar of definition sentences and parsing software which can extract their functional components. Based on definition sentences used in one of the dictionaries from the Cobuild range, and the book includes a brief history of the development of monolingual English dictionaries, an assessment of the concepts of sublanguages and local grammars and a full exploration of the results of the analysis and of the present and future applications of the taxonomy, grammar and parser.


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