The aim of this volume is to showcase the range of corpus-based linguistic research currently being carried out on languages other than English. The papers included report on work carried out on Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Biblical Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Medieval Irish, Korean, Romanian and Swedish, including a number of regional and social variants. They also address a range of areas as diverse as corpus design, corpus annotation, register analysis, syntax, and quantitative linguistics. The papers in this volume will leave the reader in no doubt that corpus-based research is now being conducted for a whole "rainbow of languages".ContentsPreface1. The PARIS 7 annotated corpus for French: some experimental resultsAnne Abeille Lionel Clement, Alexandra Kinyon, Francois Toussenel2. Lexical frequency of contemporary Canadian French based on a large corpusMartin Beaudoin and Michel Simard3. The Corpus of Electronic Texts: A digital lexicon of Medieval Irish and an Irish prosopographyBeatrix Furber 4. A corpus of written Italian: a defined and a dynamic model R. Rossini Favretti, F. Tamburini and C. De Santis 5. A reusable corpus needs syntactic annotations: Prague Dependency Treebank Eva Hajicova and Petr Sgall 6. Variation across Korean text registers Beom-mo Kang, Hung-gyu Kim and Myung-hoe Huh 7. A tagset for the morphosyntactic tagging of ArabicShereen Khoja, Roger Garside and Gerry Knowles 8. Tracing referent location in oral picture descriptionsMaarten Lemmens 9. Pragmatic and discursive aspects of German modal particles: a corpus- based approachMartina Mullering 10. Investigating characteristic lexical distributions and grammatical patterning in Swedish texts translated from EnglishP-O Nilsson11. OpenText.org and the problems and prospects of working with ancient discourseMatthew Brook O.Donnell, Stanley E. Porter, and Jeffrey T. Reed 12. Syntactic change in Abidjanee French Katja Ploog 13. HPSG-based syntactic treebank of Bulgarian (BulTreeBank)Kiril Simov, Gergana Popova, Petya Osenova 14. Grammatical aspects of Corpus Linguistics: Design and usage of linear and hierarchical text databasesWolf-Dieter Syring 15. A corpus.based analysis of how accurately printed Romanian obeys to some universal lawsAdriana Vlad, Adrian Mitrea and Mihai Mitrea