This was her favoured fairy realm, and here she erected her aerial palaces. Marți, 27 martie 2018. Luni, 19 martie 2018. Les gens qui doutent, Anne Sylvestre. Miercuri, 27 decembrie 2017. Awake in a Dream, Marlene Dietrich. Happy birthday, Marlene! Music to my ears. Luni, 13 noiembrie 2017. A Halloween story from county Galway. I started reading the story.

Language corpora; word frequency distributions; how these vary across language varieties, and how they relate to syntactic and lexical hypotheses; corpus interfaces; automatic and semi-automatic lexical acquisition from corpora; using the web as a corpus. Relations between lexicons and corpora. Word lists for language learning; word frequency lists. Automatically finding lexical information in large corpora. Using the web as a source of linguistic data.

Today I write in English in honour of Adam Kilgarriff. It was a shock to hear the news of his passing. Adam was a renowned linguist, working with language corpora, word frequency distributions and corpus interfaces, among many other things. I first knew Adam in Oslo, Norway, in a Euralex conference. He was a charming, lively keynote speaker with a great sense of humour. One of many workshops of LexMC.

Friday, August 7, 2015. Rhetorical expressions for essay writing. It is a fact that, in effect, as a matter of fact, actually, indeed. Up to a point, to some extent, in a way. Yet, but, while, however, still, nevertheless, on the other hand, at the same time, even so, regardless of the fact, in spite of the fact that. Although, yet, on the other hand, at the same time, in contrast.