The existence of corpus-based linguistic research in Japan has until now mainly been hidden from the view of overseas researchers ? partly by the language barrier, and partly by the continuing dominance of generative grammar in Japan. At last, this volume lifts the veil to reveal the current condition of corpus-based research in Japan.English Corpus Linguistics in Japan contains a collection of twenty papers written by Japanese linguists, reflecting the state of art inEnglish corpus linguistics in Japan. The volume covers an impressively wide range, showcasing the diversity and creativity of corpus-based research in this country, from studies drawing on the 'old faithful'Brown and LOB Corpora as well as the more recent Frown, FLOB, the Bank of English and the British National Corpus to studies based on more specific historical, literary, spoken, and learner corpora; from investigations of major levels of language description, including prosody, lexis, morphology, syntax, and semantics to investigations of language variation; from explorations of single variables to those of multivariant dimensions; and from pedagogical applications to software applications. The papers are grouped into four sections: 1)Corpus-based studies of contemporary English, 2) Historical and diachronic studies of English, 3) English corpora and English language teaching, 4) Software for analyzing corpora. This volume will inspire still further corpus explorations in the future both in Japan and abroad.ContentsForeword by Geoffrey LeechPreface by Toshio Saito, Junsaku Nakamura and Shunji YamazakiI.Corpus-Based Studies in Contemporary EnglishSyntactic Boundaries and Prosodic Features in English by Atsuko FurutaUmesakiA Galaxy of Words: Structures Based upon Distributions of Verbs, Nouns andAdjectives in the LOB Corpus by Junsaku NakamuraConjugational Patterns and Text Categories in the LOB Corpus by TakeshiOkadaDistribution of Frequent Adjectives in the Wellington Corpus of Written NewZealand English by Shunji YamazakiOn Viewing Reflexives in the Bank of English: Their Distribution andFunction by Teruhiko FukayaLexical Richness and Semantic Loading Capacity of Nouns by Toshihiko KubotaA Trap in Corpus Linguistics: The Gap between Corpus-based Analysis andIntuition-based Analysis by Hideshi Takaie >From Participles to Conjunctions: A Parallel Corpus Study ofGrammaticalization in English and French by Mitsumi UchidaII.Historical and Diachronic Studies of EnglishCollocational Patterns of -ly Manner Adverbs in Dickens by Masahiro HoriInvestigating Stylistic Variation in Dickens through Correspondence Analysis of Word-Class Distribution by Tomoji TabataDegree Adverbs in the Corpus of Early English Correspondence Sampler byHideo NishimuraAdverbial Positions and Verb Movement in Middle English and Early ModernEnglish by Michio HosakaDevelopment of Any from Middle English to Early Modern English: A StudyUsing the Helsinki Corpus of English Texts by Yoko IyeiriOn the Absence of the Conjunction That in Late Middle English by NorihikoOtsuThe Semantics of Chaucer's Moot/Moste and Shal/Sholde: Conditional Elements and Degrees of Their uantifiability by Yoshiyuki NakaoSyntactic Annotation and Text Classification: A Study Using thePenn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English by Satoru TsukamotoProblems with the Electronic OED2 as a Database of Linguistic Terms byHideki WatanabeIII. English Corpora and English Language TeachingCommunication Strategies of EFL Learners: A Corpus-based Approach by KojiroAsaoCollocational Knowledge of L2 Learners of English: A Case Study of JapaneseLearners by Masatoshi SugiuraIV. Software for Analyzing Corpora