Databases designed for investigating specific phenomena
Dunstan Brown, Carole Tiberius, Marina Chumakina, Greville G. Corbett, Alexander V. Krasovitsky · 2009
In this chapter we consider databases which have been constructed to investigate particular linguistic phenomena. Data entered into a database with little thought or attention to its categorisation are at best usless, and in the worst case harmful if used to make spurious generalizations. So there is a requirement that we are explicit about our analyses and the phenomena under investigation, and that serious thought is given to the structure of the database.