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English Corpus Linguistics

An Introduction

English Corpus Linguistics is a step-by-step guide to creating and analyzing

linguistic corpora. It begins with a discussion of the role that corpus linguistics

plays in linguistic theory, demonstrating that corpora have proven to be very

useful resources for linguists who believe that their theories and descriptions

of English should be based on real, rather than contrived, data. Charles F.

Meyer goes on to describe how to plan the creation of a corpus, how to collect

and computerize data for inclusion in a corpus, how to annotate the data that

are collected, and how to conduct a corpus analysis of a completed corpus.

The bookconcludes with an overview of the future challenges that corpus

linguists face to make both the creation and analysis of corpora much easier

undertakings than they currently are. Clearly organized and accessibly written,

this bookwill appeal to students of linguistics and English language.

. is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of

Massachusetts, Boston. He has published numerous books and articles on lin-

guistics, including Apposition in Contemporary English (Cambridge, 1992),

and TheVerbinContemporaryEnglish , co-edited with Bas Aarts (Cambridge,

1995). He is currently editor of the Journal of English Linguistics and former

co-ordinator of the International Corpus of English (ICE).

The aim of this series is to provide a frameworkfor original workon the English

language. All are based securely on empirical research, and represent theoretical and

descriptive contributions to our knowledge of national varieties of English, both

written and spoken. The series will cover a broad range of topics in English grammar,

vocabulary, discourse, and pragmatics, and is aimed at an international readership.

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Editorial Board

Bas Aarts, John Algeo, Susan Fitzmaurice,

Richard Hogg, Merja Kyto, Charles Meyer

English Corpus Linguistics

An Introduction