Corpus Linguistics seeks to provide a complete catalogue of a given language, and to use this empirical data to test language hypotheses. These days corpora are being used to advance virtually every aspect of language study, from computer processing techniques such as machine translation, to literary stylistics, social aspects of language use, and improved language-teaching methods.

This volume reprints forty-two articles on corpus linguistics, which comprehensively illustrate the directions in which the subject is developing. It includes articles that are already recognized as classics, and others which deserve to become so, supplemented with editorial introductions relating the international contributions to the field as a whole.

This collection of readings will be useful to students of corpus linguistics at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, as well as academics researching this fascinating area of linguistics.