An Introduction to Corpus Linguistics (Hardcover)

Acknowledgements1. INTRODUCTIONCorporaThe role of computers in corpus linguisticsThe scope of corpus linguistics2. THE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF CORPORAPre-electronic corporaTypes of electronic corporaMajor electronic corpora for linguistic researchElectonic text databasesIssues in corpus design and compilationCompling a corpusOrganizations and professional associations concerned with corpus design, development and research3. CORPUS-BASEDDESCRIPTIONS OF ENGLISHLexical descriptionGrammatical studies centred on morphemes or wordsGrammatical studies centred on the sentencePragmatics and spoken discourseCorpus-based studies of variation in the use of English4. CORPUS ANALYSISCorpus annotation and processingProcedures used in corpus analysisCorpus search and retrieval software5. IMPLICATIONS ANDAPPLICATIONSOF CORPUS-BASEDANALYSISGoals of linguistic description and the effect of corpora on methodologyCorpus linguistics and computational linguisticsCorpus-based approaches to language teachingReferencesIndex