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Corpus Linguistics has quickly established itself as the leading undergraduate course book in the subject. This second edition takes full account of the latest developments in the rapidly changing field, making this the most up-to-date and comprehensive textbook available. It gives a step-by-step introduction to what a corpus is, how corpora are constructed, and what can be done with them. Each chapter ends with a section of study questions that contain practical corpus-based exercises. * Designed for student use, with all technical terms explained in the text and referenced further in a Glossary * Examples are taken from existing corpora; detailed case study chapter included * Contains end-of-chapter summaries, study questions and suggestions for further reading * Updated reviews of new studies, areas that have recently come to prominence and new directions in corpus encoding and annotation standards * Detailed coverage of multilingual corpus construction and use * An in-depth historical review of computer-based corpora from the 1940s to the present day * Helpful appendices include answers to the study questions, up-to-date information on where corpora can be found, and the latest software for corpus research. "[An] important addition to the fast growing literature in corpus linguistics! should be read by anyone interested in utilization of large-scale corpora in linguistic research." Studies in the Linguistic Sciences, on the first edition

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This alphabetic guide provides definitions and discussion of key terms used in corpus linguistics. Corpus data is being used in a growing number of English and Linguistics departments which have no record of past research with corpus data. This is the first comprehensive glossary of the many specialist terms in corpus linguistics and will be useful for corpus linguists and non corpus linguists alike. Clearly written, by a team of experienced academics in the field, the glossary provides full coverage of both traditional and contemporary terminology. Entries are focused around the following broad groupings: * Important corpora * Key technical terms in the field * Key linguistic terms relevant to corpus-based research * Key statistical measures used in corpus linguistics * Key computer programme/retrieval systems used in the construction and exploitation of corpora * Standards applied within the field of corpus linguistics.

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This book demonstrates the advantage of a corpus based approach to Arabic, and presents an overview of current research on the Arabic language within corpus linguistics. Dealing not only with modern standard Arabic, the book also considers classical and colloquial forms, including Tunisian Arabic and Iraqi Arabic.

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