Handbook of Corpus Linguistics

At present, scientists across the world have been engaged in computerizing information of various types, since the primary goals of computational linguistics are to characterize, as far as possible, the features of a natural language within the frame of computer architecture. This book discusses the resources and methodologies used by corpus linguists; and show some key observations relating to comparative frequency and to patterning. It also considers the importance of corpus linguistics for linguistic theory and presents some of the applications of corpus research.