Working with German Corpora

Bill Dodd is Reader in German Studies in the Department of German Studies at the University of Birmingham, and has recently been awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship.

• Foreword; John Sinclair; Editor's Preface; Bill Dodd; Note on language corpora and software; Ramesh Krishnamurthy and Bill Dodd; Notes on contributors; 1. Introduction: The revelavance of corpora to German studies; Bill Dodd; 2. Corpus analysis in the service of literary criticism: Goethe's Die Wahlaverwandtschaften as a model case; Gordon J.A. Burgess; 3. When Ost meets West: a corpus-based study of binomial and other expressions before and during German reunification; Bill Dodd; 4. German be- verns revisited: using corpus evidence to investigate valency; Piklu Gupta; 5. A corpus-based study of German accusative/dative prepositions; Randall L. Jones; 6. Translators at play: exploitations of collocational norms in. German-Engliah translation; Dorothy Kenny; 7. 'Die schine Geschichte': a corpus-based analysis of Thomas Mann's Joseph und seine Bruder; Ann Lawson; 8. Towards a corpus-based comparison of two journals in the field of business and management in German; April Mackison; 9. The ASTCOVEA German Grammar in con Text Project; Peter Roe; 10. An electronic corpus of Early New High German; Jonathan West; 11. Rights and obligations in legal contracts: corpus evidence; Anne Wichmann and Jane Nielsen; 12. Inflected and periphrastic subjunctive verb forms in German newspaper texts of the 1960s and 1990s; Nic Witton; Index.

"'This volume is fascinating in itself in presenting a range of different types of corpus research. It is especially important for scholars German, both in the research findings that are reported and the development of reusable resources for other scholars. It points the way for researchers in other languages to gather material for similar volumes.' John Sinclair, from the Foreword."