Gerald Nelson

List of John Benjamins publications in which Gerald Nelson is involved.

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Exploring Natural Language: Working with the British Component of the International Corpus of English

Gerald Nelson, Sean Wallis and Bas Aarts

ICE-GB is a 1 million-word corpus of contemporary British English. It is fully parsed, and contains over 83,000 syntactic trees. Together with the dedicated retrieval software, ICECUP, ICE-GB is an unprecedented resource for the study of English syntax.Exploring Natural Language is a comprehensive… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G29] 2002. xviii, 344 pp.

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Nelson, Gerald 2015 Response to Davies and Fuchs English World-Wide 36:1, pp. 38–40 | Commentary

Commentary to: Davies, Mark, and Robert Fuchs. 2015. "Expanding horizons in the study of World Englishes with the 1.9 billion word Global Web-based English Corpus (GloWbE)". English World-Wide 36:1–28 (This issue). DOI:10.1075/eww.36.1.01dav

Nelson, Gerald and Ren Hongtao 2012 Particle verbs in African Englishes: Nativization and innovation Mapping Unity and Diversity World-Wide: Corpus-Based Studies of New Englishes, Hundt, Marianne and Ulrike Gut (eds.), pp. 197–214 | Article

On the basis of various Internet sources, we investigate the use of particle verbs (PVs) in Ugandan and other African Englishes. Following Biber et al. (1999) we classify PVs into four major types; their distribution is very similar to that reported for native varieties. We find a number of… read more

Bolton, Kingsley, Gerald Nelson and Joseph Hung 2002 A corpus-based study of connectors in student writing: Research from the International Corpus of English in Hong Kong (ICE-HK) International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 7:2, pp. 165–182 | Article

This paper focuses on connector usage in the writing of university students in Hong Kong and in Great Britain, and presents results based on the comparison of data from the Hong Kong component (ICE-HK) and the British component (ICE-GB) of the International Corpus of English (ICE). While previous… read more

Greenbaum, Sidney and Gerald Nelson 1999 Elliptical clauses in spoken and written English The Clause in English: In honour of Rodney Huddleston, Collins, Peter and David Lee (eds.), pp. 111–126 | Article

Greenbaum, Sidney and Gerald Nelson 1995 Clause relationships in spoken and written English Functions of Language 2:1, pp. 1–21 | Article

There are opposing views on whether speech or writing is more complex syntactically. We investigated the complexity of clause relationships in a range of spoken and written text categories: spontaneous conversations, broadcast discussions, unscripted monologues, personal handwritten letters,… read more