The advent of usage-/exemplar-based approaches has resulted in a major change in the theoretical landscape of linguistics, but also in the range of methodologies that are brought to bear on the study of language acquisition/learning, structure, and use. In particular, methods from corpus linguistics are now frequently used to study distributional characteristics of linguistics units and what th...

Email: [email protected] This volume is witness to a spirited and fruitful period in the evolution of corpus linguistics. In twenty-two articles written by established corpus linguists, members of the ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern and Mediaeval English) association, this new volume brings the reader up to date with the cycle of activities which make up this field of study as...

The article deals with the principles of using concepts corpus linguistics in studying American English dialects. origins dialects are considered, and developments by W. Francis G. Kuchera investigated (Brown Corpus, 1964). concept «corpus linguistics» is defined, some problematic aspects described. qualifications for corpus-linguistic approach study dialect grammatical features defined. differ...

Anthony, Laurence. 2013. A critical look at software tools in corpus linguistics. Linguistic Research 30(2), 141-161. Corpora are often referred to as the ‘tools’ of corpus linguistics. However, it is important to recognize that corpora are simply linguistic data and that specialized software tools are required to view and analyze them. The functionality offered by software tools largely dictat...

In this day an age, some corpus linguistics should be par t of every course to do with language. But learning about corpus linguistics its possibilities a n d limitations is not just a mat te r of acquiring information. The best way to learn about corpus linguistics is to do it, and the best way to teach corpus linguistics is to put students into a position where they can do it ((Leech, 1997), ...