Corpus Linguistics Tony Mcenery Andrew Wilson by Tony Mcenery; Andrew Wilson 9781474470865, 1474470866 instant download after payment.

• Designed for student use, with all technical terms explained in the text and referenced further in a Glossary
• Examples are taken from existing corpora; detailed case study chapter included
• Contains end-of-chapter summaries, study questions and suggestions for further reading
• Updated reviews of new studies, areas that have recently come to prominence and new directions in corpus encoding and annotation standards
• Detailed coverage of multilingual corpus construction and use
• An in-depth historical review of computer-based corpora from the 1940s to the present day
• Helpful appendices include answers to the study questions, up-to-date information on where corpora can be found, and the latest software for corpus research.

"[An] important addition to the fast growing literature in corpus linguistics… should be read by anyone interested in utilization of large-scale corpora in linguistic research."

Studies in the Linguistic Sciences, on the first edition.