Ulrike Gut, Anglistik Uni Augsburg

Titel: The compilation of the ICE Nigeria

Abstract: The ICE Nigeria, a corpus of spoken and written Nigerian English
is currently being compiled at the University of Augsburg
<http://www.philhist.uni-augsburg.de/de/lehrstuehle/anglistik/applied/Research/icenigeria/>.
This talk will give a brief introduction to the study of English varieties
world-wide in general and Nigerian English in particular and to the ICE
(International Corpus of English) project. The corpus design, data format
and annotation of the ICE Nigeria will be presented. In addition, a demo
of the tool Pacx, a platform for annotated corpora in XML
<http://pacx.sourceforge.net/> which is being developed for the
compilation of the ICE Nigeria, will be given. A few examples of
corpus-based findings on relative clauses and progressives in Nigerian
will round up the talk.