Summary: English Corpus Linguistics is a step-by-step guide to
creating and analyzing linguistic corpora. It begins with a
discussion of the role that corpus linguistics plays in
linguistic theory, demonstrating that corpora have proven to be
very useful resources for linguists who believe that their
theories and descriptions of English should be based on real
rather than contrived data. Charles F. Meyer goes on to describe
how to plan the creation of a corpus, how to collect an ...show
mored computerize data for inclusion in a corpus, how to
annotate the data that are collected, and how to conduct a
corpus analysis of a completed corpus. The book concludes with
an overview of the future challenges that corpus linguists face
to make both the creation and analysis of corpora much easier
undertakings than they currently are. Clearly organized and
accessibly written, this book will appeal to students of
linguistics and English language.