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1.Onecanfreelychoosetextstobeannotated.Thismeansthatonecaneven
analysetexts,orfragmentsoftexts,thathavenotyetbeenannotatedby
anyone.
2.Onecanmaketheannotationsimplerandmoreuser-friendly.
3.Onedoesnotfeelthelimitsandimperfectionsimposedononebytheexisting
annotatedcorpora.
4.Onecanfindone’sownsolutionstotheproblemsthatmightoccurduring
theannotationprocess.
5.Onecanmakeuseofsimpleandwidelyaccessiblecomputerprograms
fortheconstructionofone’sannotatedcorpora.Forexample,weusedthe
MicrosoftWordprogram.
6.Onecanconstructone’sowncorpusthewaythatitcanbemodifiedand
adaptedtotheneedsofone’spresentandfutureresearch.
7.Onecanconstructacorpusthatwillreflectone’sownideasaboutlan-
guage.
8.Onecanconstructacorpusthatwillallowoneadual/multipleapproach
toambiguous/ambivalentstructuresinlanguageinsteadofarigidone-way
approach.
Furthermore,McEnryandWilson(2001:32)observethat“unannotated
corporahavebeen,andare,ofconsiderableuseinlanguagestudy,butthe
utilityofthecorpusisconsiderablyincreasedbytheprovisionofannotation.
Theimportantpointtograspaboutanannotatedcorpusisthatitisnolonger
simplyabodyoftextinwhichthelinguisticinformationisimplicitlypresent.
[Moreover,]acorpus,whenannotated,maybeconsideredtobearepositoryof
linguisticinformation,becausetheinformationwhichwasimplicitintheplain
texthasbeenmadeexplicitthroughconcreteannotation.”AccordingtoLeech
(1993;afterDash2005:5),therearesevenmaximsthatshouldbeapplied
strictlyintheannotationoftexts:
1.Itshouldalwaysbeeasytodispensewithannotation,andrevertto
therawcorpus.Therawcorpusshouldberecoverable.
2.Theannotationsshould,correspondingly,beextractablefromthe
rawcorpus,tobestoredindependently,orstoredinaninterlinear
format.
3.Theschemeofanalysispresupposedbytheannotations1the
annotationscheme1shouldbebasedonprinciplesorguidelines
accessibletotheuser.
4.Itshouldbemadeclearbeforehandabouthowandbywhomallthe
annotationswereapplied.
5.Theusermustbemadeawarethattheannotationappliedinthe
corpusisnotinfallible,butsimplyapotentiallyusefultool.
