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Mark Davies (linguist)

October 30, 2023

Mark E. Davies (born 1963) is an American linguist. He specializes in corpus linguistics and language variation and change. He is the creator of most of the text corpora from English-Corpora.org (including the Corpus of Contemporary American English/ COCA) as well as the Corpus del español and the Corpus do português. He has also created large datasets of word frequency, collocates, and n-grams data, which have been used by many large companies in the fields of technology and also language learning.

Mark Davies
Born (1963-04-22) April 22, 1963 (age 60)
NationalityAmerican
Known forCorpus linguistics, Historical linguistics, Syntactic change
Academic background
Education
Academic work
DisciplineCorpus linguistics, historical linguistics, syntactic change
Institutions
Websitemark-davies.org

Davies earned a bachelor's degree with a double major in linguistics and Spanish from Brigham Young University (BYU) in 1986, followed by an MA in Spanish linguistics from BYU in 1989. He earned his Ph.D. in Iberoromance philology and linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1992. He has received several grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation, to create and use corpora of English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

From 1992 to 2003, Davies was a professor of Spanish at Illinois State University. He was then a professor of linguistics at Brigham Young University from 2003 until his retirement in 2020. At BYU he received numerous awards for research, including the "Karl G. Maeser Research and Creative Arts Award" in 2015 (one of just two given at the university). At BYU, he taught courses in corpus linguistics, historical linguistics, and English grammar.

Books edit

  • Davies, Mark and Kathy Hayward Davies. 2017. A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish: Core Vocabulary for Learners. Second edition: revised and expanded. Routledge.
  • Davies, Mark and Dee Gardner. 2010. A Frequency Dictionary of American English: Word Sketches, Collocates, and Thematic Lists. Routledge.
  • Gries, Stefan, Stefanie Wulff, and Mark Davies. 2009. Corpus linguistic applications: current studies, new directions. Rodopi.
  • Davies, Mark and Ana Maria Raposo Preto-Bay. 2007. A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese: Core Vocabulary for Learners. Routledge.
  • Davies, Mark. 2005. A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish: Core Vocabulary for Learners. First edition. Routledge.
  • Davies, Mark. 2004. El uso del Corpus del Español y otros corpus para investigar la variación actual y los cambios históricos. Tokyo: University of Sophia.

Other selected publications (since 2005) edit

  • Davies, Mark. 2021. "The Coronavirus Corpus: Design, construction, and use". International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 26(4): 583–98.
  • Davies, Mark and Giovanni Parodi. 2021. "Constitución de corpus crecientes del español". In Giovanni Parodi, Pascual Cantos, Chad Howe. The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Corpus Linguistics.
  • Kim, Jong-Bok and Mark Davies. 2020. "English what with absolute constructions: a Construction Grammar perspective." English Language and Linguistics 24(4): 637–666.
  • Davies, Mark. 2020. "The TV and Movies corpora: design, construction, and use." International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 26(1): 10–37.
  • Davies, Mark and Jong-Bok Kim. 2019. "The advantages and challenges of ‘big data’: Insights from the 14 billion word iWeb corpus". Linguistic Research 36(1), 1-34.
  • Davies, Mark. 2019. "The best of both worlds: Multi-billion word ‘dynamic’ corpora". In Piotr Banski, et al. Proceedings of the Workshop on Challenges in the Management of Large Corpora (CMLC-7) 2019. Mannheim: Leibniz-Institut fur Deutsche Sprache.
  • Davies, Mark and Jong-Bok Kim. 2019. "Historical shifts with the into-causative construction in American English." Linguistics 57: 29–58.
  • Gardner, Dee and Mark Davies. 2018. "Sorting them all out: Exploring the separable phrasal verbs of English." System 76: 197–209.
  • Davies, Mark. 2018. "Using (and useful) corpora for the study of the history of English". In Teaching the History of the English Language, eds. Chris Palmer and Colette Moore. MLA Options for Teaching Series.
  • Davies, Mark. 2018. "Corpus-based studies of lexical and semantic variation: The importance of both corpus size and corpus design." In From data to evidence in English language research (Digital Linguistics), eds. Suhr, Carla, Terttu Nevalainen and Irma Taavitsainen. Leiden: Brill. 34–55.
  • Davies, Mark. 2018. "Uso del Corpus del Español y los corpus relacionados para la lexicografía histórica española." In Historia del léxico español y Humanidades digitales. Eds. Alejandro Fajardo, et al. Berlin: Peter Lang. 49–76.
  • Davies, Mark. 2017. "Using Large Online Corpora to Examine Lexical, Semantic, and Cultural Variation in Different Dialects and Time Periods". In Corpus-Based Sociolinguistics, ed. Eric Friginal et al. London: Routledge. 19–82.
  • Kim, Jong-Bok and Mark Davies. 2016. "The Into Causative Construction in English: A Construction-based Perspective." English Language and Linguistics 20 (1): 55–83.
  • Biber, Douglas, Jesse Egbert, and Mark Davies. 2015. "Exploring the Composition of the Web: A Corpus-based Taxonomy of Web Registers". Corpora 10 (1): 11–45.
  • Davies, Mark and Robert Fuchs. 2015. "Expanding Horizons in the Study of World Englishes with the 1.9 Billion Word Global Web-Based English Corpus (GloWbE)." English World-Wide 36: 1-28.
  • Davies, Mark.  2014. "Making Google Books n-grams useful for a wide range of research on language change". International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 19 (3): 401–16.
  • Davies, Mark. 2014. "Powerful (yet simple) comparisons of a wide range of phenomena in British and American English". ICAME Journal 38:35-56.
  • Davies, Mark. 2014. "Creating and Using the Corpus do Português and the Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese". In Working with Portuguese Corpora, eds. Tony Berber Sardinha and Telma Ferreira. Continuum Publishers. 89–110.
  • Davies, Mark. 2014. "Examining syntactic variation in English: the importance of corpus design and corpus size". English Language and Linguistics 19 (3): 1-35.
  • Gardner, Dee and Mark Davies. 2013. "A New Academic Vocabulary List." In Applied Linguistics 35: 1-24.
  • Davies, Mark. 2012. "Expanding Horizons in Historical Linguistics with the 400 million word Corpus of Historical American English". Corpora 7: 121–57.
  • Davies, Mark. 2012. "Examining Recent Changes in English: Some Methodological Issues". In The Oxford Handbook of the History of English, eds. Terttu Nevalainen and Elizabeth Closs Traugott. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press. 263–87.
  • Davies, Mark. 2011. "Synchronic and Diachronic Uses of Corpora". In Perspectives on Corpus Linguistics: Connections & Controversies, eds. Vander Viana, Sonia Zyngier and Geoff Barnbrook. Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 63–80.
  • Davies, Mark and Dee Gardner. 2011. "Creating and Using the Frequency Dictionary of Contemporary American English: Word Sketches, Collocates, and Thematic Lists". In Corpus-based studies in language use, language learning, and language documentation, ed. John Newman, et al. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 283–97.
  • Davies, Mark. 2011. "The Corpus of Contemporary American English as the First Reliable Monitor Corpus of English". Literary and Linguistic Computing 25: 447–65.
  • Davies, Mark. 2010. "Creating Useful Historical Corpora: A Comparison of CORDE, the Corpus del Español, and the Corpus do Português". In Diacronía de las lenguas iberorromances: nuevas perspectivas desde la lingüística de corpus, ed. Andrés Enrique-Arias. Frankfurt/Madrid: Vervuert/Iberoamericana. 137–66.
  • Davies, Mark. 2009. "The 385+ Million Word Corpus of Contemporary American English (1990-2008+): Design, Architecture, and Linguistic Insights". International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 14: 159–90.
  • Davies, Mark. 2009. "Relational databases as a robust architecture for the analysis of word frequency". In What's in a Wordlist?: In Investigating Word Frequency and Keyword Extraction, ed. Dawn Archer. London: Ashgate. 53–68.
  • Davies, Mark. 2008. "Spanish and Portuguese Corpus Linguistics". Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics. 1:149-86.
  • Davies, Mark and Dee Gardner. 2007. "Pointing Out Frequent Phrasal Verbs: A Corpus-Based Analysis". TESOL Quarterly 41:339-59.
  • Davies, Mark. 2006. "Towards the first comprehensive survey of register variation in Spanish". In Corpus Linguistics Beyond the Word: Corpus Research from Phrase to Discourse, ed. Eileen Fitzpatrick. Rodopi. 73–86.
  • Biber, Douglas, Mark Davies, James Jones, and Nicole Tracy-Ventura. 2006. "Spoken and written register variation in Spanish: A Multi-dimensional Analysis." Corpora 1:1-37.
  • Davies, Mark. 2005. "The advantage of using relational databases for large corpora: speed, advanced queries, and unlimited annotation". International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 10: 301–28.

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External links edit

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University of Texas Austin PhD Academic workDisciplineCorpus linguistics historical linguistics syntactic changeInstitutionsIllinois State UniversityBrigham Young UniversityWebsitemark davies wbr orgDavies earned a bachelor s degree with a double major in linguistics and Spanish from Brigham Young University BYU in 1986 followed by an MA in Spanish linguistics from BYU in 1989 He earned his Ph D in Iberoromance philology and linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1992 He has received several grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation to create and use corpora of English Spanish and Portuguese From 1992 to 2003 Davies was a professor of Spanish at Illinois State University He was then a professor of linguistics at Brigham Young University from 2003 until his retirement in 2020 At BYU he received numerous awards for research including the Karl G Maeser Research and Creative Arts Award in 2015 one of just two given at the university At BYU he taught courses in corpus linguistics historical linguistics and English grammar Contents 1 Books 2 Other selected publications since 2005 3 References 4 External linksBooks editDavies Mark and Kathy Hayward Davies 2017 A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish Core Vocabulary for Learners Second edition revised and expanded Routledge Davies Mark and Dee Gardner 2010 A Frequency Dictionary of American English Word Sketches Collocates and Thematic Lists Routledge Gries Stefan Stefanie Wulff and Mark Davies 2009 Corpus linguistic applications current studies new directions Rodopi Davies Mark and Ana Maria Raposo Preto Bay 2007 A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese Core Vocabulary for Learners Routledge Davies Mark 2005 A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish Core Vocabulary for Learners First edition Routledge Davies Mark 2004 El uso del Corpus del Espanol y otros corpus para investigar la variacion actual y los cambios historicos Tokyo University of Sophia Other selected publications since 2005 editDavies Mark 2021 The Coronavirus Corpus Design construction and use International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 26 4 583 98 Davies Mark and Giovanni Parodi 2021 Constitucion de corpus crecientes del espanol In Giovanni Parodi Pascual Cantos Chad Howe The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Corpus Linguistics Kim Jong Bok and Mark Davies 2020 English what with absolute constructions a Construction Grammar perspective English Language and Linguistics 24 4 637 666 Davies Mark 2020 The TV and Movies corpora design construction and use International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 26 1 10 37 Davies Mark and Jong Bok Kim 2019 The advantages and challenges of big data Insights from the 14 billion word iWeb corpus Linguistic Research 36 1 1 34 Davies Mark 2019 The best of both worlds Multi billion word dynamic corpora In Piotr Banski et al Proceedings of the Workshop on Challenges in the Management of Large Corpora CMLC 7 2019 Mannheim Leibniz Institut fur Deutsche Sprache Davies Mark and Jong Bok Kim 2019 Historical shifts with the into causative construction in American English Linguistics 57 29 58 Gardner Dee and Mark Davies 2018 Sorting them all out Exploring the separable phrasal verbs of English System 76 197 209 Davies Mark 2018 Using and useful corpora for the study of the history of English In Teaching the History of the English Language eds Chris Palmer and Colette Moore MLA Options for Teaching Series Davies Mark 2018 Corpus based studies of lexical and semantic variation The importance of both corpus size and corpus design In From data to evidence in English language research Digital Linguistics eds Suhr Carla Terttu Nevalainen and Irma Taavitsainen Leiden Brill 34 55 Davies Mark 2018 Uso del Corpus del Espanol y los corpus relacionados para la lexicografia historica espanola In Historia del lexico espanol y Humanidades digitales Eds Alejandro Fajardo et al Berlin Peter Lang 49 76 Davies Mark 2017 Using Large Online Corpora to Examine Lexical Semantic and Cultural Variation in Different Dialects and Time Periods In Corpus Based Sociolinguistics ed Eric Friginal et al London Routledge 19 82 Kim Jong Bok and Mark Davies 2016 The Into Causative Construction in English A Construction based Perspective English Language and Linguistics 20 1 55 83 Biber Douglas Jesse Egbert and Mark Davies 2015 Exploring the Composition of the Web A Corpus based Taxonomy of Web Registers Corpora 10 1 11 45 Davies Mark and Robert Fuchs 2015 Expanding Horizons in the Study of World Englishes with the 1 9 Billion Word Global Web Based English Corpus GloWbE English World Wide 36 1 28 Davies Mark 2014 Making Google Books n grams useful for a wide range of research on language change International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 19 3 401 16 Davies Mark 2014 Powerful yet simple comparisons of a wide range of phenomena in British and American English ICAME Journal 38 35 56 Davies Mark 2014 Creating and Using the Corpus do Portugues and the Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese In Working with Portuguese Corpora eds Tony Berber Sardinha and Telma Ferreira Continuum Publishers 89 110 Davies Mark 2014 Examining syntactic variation in English the importance of corpus design and corpus size English Language and Linguistics 19 3 1 35 Gardner Dee and Mark Davies 2013 A New Academic Vocabulary List In Applied Linguistics 35 1 24 Davies Mark 2012 Expanding Horizons in Historical Linguistics with the 400 million word Corpus of Historical American English Corpora 7 121 57 Davies Mark 2012 Examining Recent Changes in English Some Methodological Issues In The Oxford Handbook of the History of English eds Terttu Nevalainen and Elizabeth Closs Traugott Oxford Oxford Univ Press 263 87 Davies Mark 2011 Synchronic and Diachronic Uses of Corpora In Perspectives on Corpus Linguistics Connections amp Controversies eds Vander Viana Sonia Zyngier and Geoff Barnbrook Philadelphia John Benjamins 63 80 Davies Mark and Dee Gardner 2011 Creating and Using the Frequency Dictionary of Contemporary American English Word Sketches Collocates and Thematic Lists In Corpus based studies in language use language learning and language documentation ed John Newman et al Amsterdam Rodopi 283 97 Davies Mark 2011 The Corpus of Contemporary American English as the First Reliable Monitor Corpus of English Literary and Linguistic Computing 25 447 65 Davies Mark 2010 Creating Useful Historical Corpora A Comparison of CORDE the Corpus del Espanol and the Corpus do Portugues In Diacronia de las lenguas iberorromances nuevas perspectivas desde la linguistica de corpus ed Andres Enrique Arias Frankfurt Madrid Vervuert Iberoamericana 137 66 Davies Mark 2009 The 385 Million Word Corpus of Contemporary American English 1990 2008 Design Architecture and Linguistic Insights International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 14 159 90 Davies Mark 2009 Relational databases as a robust architecture for the analysis of word frequency In What s in a Wordlist In Investigating Word Frequency and Keyword Extraction ed Dawn Archer London Ashgate 53 68 Davies Mark 2008 Spanish and Portuguese Corpus Linguistics Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 1 149 86 Davies Mark and Dee Gardner 2007 Pointing Out Frequent Phrasal Verbs A Corpus Based Analysis TESOL Quarterly 41 339 59 Davies Mark 2006 Towards the first comprehensive survey of register variation in Spanish In Corpus Linguistics Beyond the Word Corpus Research from Phrase to Discourse ed Eileen Fitzpatrick Rodopi 73 86 Biber Douglas Mark Davies James Jones and Nicole Tracy Ventura 2006 Spoken and written register variation in Spanish A Multi dimensional Analysis Corpora 1 1 37 Davies Mark 2005 The advantage of using relational databases for large corpora speed advanced queries and unlimited annotation International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 10 301 28 References editExternal links editHome page CV Google Scholar profile Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Mark Davies linguist 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