Sunday, November 29, 2009

A little frustrated

Today I finally turned to the ICE Corpus and tried to check some of the syntactic tendencies I've found cited in regards to East African English. I was able to check on single word inquiries like plural forms of words that I would usually use in the singular (e.g., bums, laps, bottoms, etc.). What I could never figure out was how to do multiple word inquiries. For example, if third person personal pronouns are variable between gender, how do I check for something like "my husband...she..."? I tried looking at the examples and user's manual and even cut and pasted some things, but that didn't get me anywhere. After spending more than an hour trying to make headway I've decided to move on to other work I need to do and give it another shot tomorrow.

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