Abstract

Acknowledgements 1. INTRODUCTION Corpora The role of computers in corpus linguistics The scope of corpus linguistics 2. THE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF CORPORA Pre-electronic corpora Types of electronic corpora Major electronic corpora for linguistic research Electonic text databases Issues in corpus design and compilation Compling a corpus Organizations and professional associations concerned with corpus design, development and research 3. CORPUS-BASED DESCRIPTIONS OF ENGLISH Lexical description Grammatical studies centred on morphemes or words Grammatical studies centred on the sentence Pragmatics and spoken discourse Corpus-based studies of variation in the use of English 4. CORPUS ANALYSIS Corpus annotation and processing Procedures used in corpus analysis Corpus search and retrieval software 5. IMPLICATIONS AND APPLICATIONS OF CORPUS-BASED ANALYSIS Goals of linguistic description and the effect of corpora on methodology Corpus linguistics and computational linguistics Corpus-based approaches to language teaching References Index

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