1 Introduction:goals and methods of the corpus-based approach

Part Ⅰ Investigating the use of language features

2 Lexicography

3 Grammar

4 Lexico-grammar

5 The study of discourse characteristics

Part Ⅱ Investigating the characteristics of varieties

6 Register variation and English for Specific Purposes

7 Language acquisition and development

8 Historical and stylistic investigations

Part Ⅲ Summing up and looking ahead

9 Conclusion

Part Ⅳ Methodology boxes

1 Issues in corpus design

2 Issues in diachronic corpus design

3 Concordancing packages versus programming for corpus analysis

4 Characteristics of tagged corpora

5 The process of tagging

6 Norming frequency counts

7 Statistical measures of lexical associations

8 The unit of analysis in corpus-based studies

9 Significance tests and the reporting of statistics

10 Factor loadings and dimension scores

Appendix:commercially available corpora and analytical tools

References

Index

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