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  • 1. Contents of the companion website
  • 2. Summary of the chapter
  • 3. Comments on the "Further Reading" list at the end of the chapter
  • 4. Glossary
    • Chi square test
    • Corpus
    • Diachronic linguistics
    • Frequency
    • Parsing
    • Precision
    • Qualitative method
    • Quantitative method
    • Recall
    • Synchronic linguistics
    • Tagging
  • 5. Sketch of the methodology presented in the chapter
  • 6. Mini-project: analysis of selected question tags in 'small' corpora
    • 6.1 Phenomenon for analysis
    • 6.2 Hypothesis
    • 6.3 Definition of the variable
    • 6.4 Study: isn't it and right in the corpora of the Brown family and the DCPSE
      • 6.4.1 Example sentences from the corpora
      • 6.4.2 Results and conclusions
  • 7. Corpus-based exercises
    • 7.1 Exercises
    • 7.2 Solutions
  • 8. Useful Internet resources
  • 9. References