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文件名称:Corpus linguistics and English reference grammars
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The present paper begins with a discussion of major conceptual and methodological
differences between the new Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (CamGr), the
Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (CGEL), and the Longman Grammar
of Spoken and Written English (LGSWE). The different approaches in the three grammars
are associated with different extents to which corpus data come into play in the grammars
at hand. The present paper argues that, for various reasons, the combination of CGEL and
LGSWE provides a first important step towards genuinely corpus-based reference
grammars in that a theoretically eclectic descriptive apparatus of English grammar is
complemented by qualitative and quantitative insights from corpus data. However, there
are several areas in which future corpus-based grammars need to be optimised, especially
with regard to the transparency of corpus design and corpus analysis and the balance
between a language-as-a-whole and a genre-specific description.