The starting point of corpus linguistics can be traced by considering the issue of observable
data and how this has been handled in different periods and across different theoretical …

Since the 1990s, a “language corpus” usually means a text collection which is:• large:
millions, or even hundreds of millions, of running words, usually sampled from hundreds or …

Corpus Linguistics seeks to provide a comprehensive sampling of real-life usage in a given
language, and to use these empirical data to test language hypotheses. Modern corpus …

By the early 1980s, corpus linguists were still considered maverick and were still pushing at
the boundaries of language-processing technology, but a culture was slowly bootstrapping …

Corpus linguistics uses large electronic databases of language to examine hypotheses
about language use. These can be tested scientifically with computerised analytical tools …

From being the occupation of a marginal (and frequently marginalised) group of
researchers, the linguistic analysis of machine-readable language corpora has moved to the …

The modern field of corpus linguistics–based around the computer-aided analysis of
extremely large databases of text–is largely a phenomenon of the late 1950s onwards. Its …

Corpus linguistics today is often understood as being a relatively new approach in linguistics
that has to do with the empirical study of “real life” language use with the help of computers …

I decided early on not to publish my own articles in the journal of which I am the editor,
except that in the first issue I attempted to outline my understanding of corpus linguistics, as …

Since the 1960s, electronic corpora have come to prominence as a resource used by
linguists. While their use remains a source of debate and controversy to this day (see for …