Corpus-based Analysis of the Bengali Language

The book analyses linguistic data and information of modern Bengali as found in a text corpus. It presents methods of Bengali corpus generation and processing (e.g., frequency counting, concordance, lemmatization, key-word-in-context, collocation, annotation, parsing etc.); analyzes the form and function of characters; and explores the structural intricacies of words belonging to different parts-of-speech. For the first time, modern Bengali is analyzed and interpreted here with close reference to a corpus to understand the language in a new perspective.§It can be used as a text-cum-reference book in colleges and universities that teach Bengali. Learners will be equipped with new information collected from the corpus and analyzed empirically to enhance their linguistic knowledgebase. They will also learn how different corpus processing techniques are applied on the corpus and what kinds of linguistic information are extracted to be used in language description, analysis, and application. Common readers, on the other hand, will have a close look into modern Bengali language to understand how Bengali people use the language while they compose texts in written form.