English corpus linguistics an introduction - Meyer, Charles F. (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-161) and index
Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 Corpus analysis and linguistic theory; 2 Planning the construction of a corpus; 3 Collecting and computerizing data; 4 Annotating a corpus; 5 Analyzing a corpus; 6 Future prospects in corpus linguistics; Appendix 1 Corpus resources; Appendix 2 Concordancing programs; References; Index
English Corpus Linguistics is a step-by-step guide to creating and analyzing linguistic corpora. The author shows how to collect and computerize data for inclusion in a corpus; how to annotate the data; and how to conduct a linguistic analysis of it once it has been created