Corpus Linguistics ― An International Handbook

Corpus linguistics is a relatively new approach to linguistics that uses computers and electronic corpora in the investigation of a wide range of research questions concerning the empirical study of "real life" languages. This handbook of 61 articles discusses the history of the field; examines methods of collecting, annotating, searching, and processing corpus data; and reports on case studies illustrating the application of corpus linguistic methods to a range of linguistic research questions. These case study reports take up nearly half of the volume and include discussions of statistical methods for corpus exploitation, distributions in text, corpus linguistics in morphology, corpora and syntax, the induction of verb frames and verb classes from corpora, using corpora to inform aspect theory, corpora and discourse analysis, historical corpus linguistics and evidence of language change, corpora in human translation, corpus linguistics and first language acquisition, corpora for text summarization, and quantitative methods in corpus linguistics. The volume includes a person index, a corpus index, and a subject index. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Anke Ludeling, HumboldtUniversitat zuBerlin, Germany; Merja Kyto, Uppsala Universitet, Sweden.