methods used to analyze language today. Biber et al.(1998) describe corpus linguistics as
having four main features; 1) it is an empirical (experiment-based) approach in which
patterns of language use that are observed in real language texts (spoken and written) are
analyzed, 2) it uses a representative sample of the target language stored as an electronic
database (a corpus) as the basis for the analysis, 3) it relies on computer software to count …