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.

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