Corpus Linguistics has proved of great value as a methodological tool in shedding light on how discourse is constructed different text types. This opening contribution to the special issue “Corpus-linguistic perspectives textual variation” provides an account some most common applications Linguistics, describes widely used corpora, and pins down influential corpus-based research works. In so do...

the relationship between verbs and their arguments is a widely debated topic in linguistics. this important area of research explores current theories of how a verb’s semantics can determine the morphosyntactic realization of its arguments. according to levin (2005) event structure and aspectual structure are the first determining factors in argument realization. so, in this article we aimed to...

In this paper we analyze a variety of standard techniques used in corpus linguistics and examine a number of issues relating to incorrect usage, the computational infeasibility of various approaches, and the inevitable sampling errors. We motivate much of the paper with applications from information retrieval but the techniques discussed and introduced are far more widely applicable, and some a...

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) is the most comprehensive dataset available in machine-readable form for eighteenth-century printed texts. It plays a crucial role studies of language and it has vast potential corpus linguistics. At same time, an unbalanced that poses series different problems. The aim this paper to offer general overview ECCO linguistics by analysing, example, its ...