Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements viii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. 1 Early Corpus Linguistics and the Chomskyan Revolution 1
6. 2 What is a Corpus and What is in It? 29
7. 3 Quantitative Data 75
8. 4 The Use of Corpora in Language Studies 103
9. 5 Corpora and Language Engineering 133
10. 6 A Case Study: Sublanguages 165
11. 7 Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards 187
12. Glossary 197
13. Appendix A: Corpora Mentioned in the Text 201
14. Appendix B: Some Software for Corpus Research 209
15. Appendix C: Suggested Solutions to Exercises 215
16. Bibliography 219
17. Index 233