This handbook provides an up-to-date survey of corpus linguistics. Spoken, written, and multimodal corpora serve as the bases for quantitative and qualitative research on many issues of linguistic int
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 "
This collection reflects Minoji Akimoto’s concern with studies of change in English that are theoretically-informed, but founded on substantial bodies of data. Some of the contributors focus on indivi