Preface
Contents
SECTION A INTRODUCTION
Unit 1 Corpus linguistics: the basics
Unit 2 Representativeness, balance and sampling
Unit 3 Corpus markup
Unit 4 Corpus annotation
Unit 5 Multilingual corpora
Unit 6 Making statistical claims
Unit 7 Using available corpora
Unit 8 Going solo: DIY corpora
Unit 9 Copyright
Unit 10 Corpora and language studies
SECTION B EXTENSION
Unit 11 Corpus representativeness and balance
Unit 12 Objections to corpora: an ongoing debate
Unit 13 Lexical and grammatical studies
Unit 14 Language variation studies
Unit 15 Contrastive and diachronic studies
Unit 16 Language teaching and learning
SECTION C EXPLORATION
Unit 17 Collocation and pedagogical lexicography
Unit 18 help or help to: what do corpora have to say?
Unit 19 L2 acquisition of grammatical morphemes
Unit 20 Swearing in modern British English
Unit 21 Conversation and speech in American English
Unit 22 Domains, text types, aspect marking and
English-Chinese translation
Bibliography
Appendix Useful Internet links
Index |