Corpus linguistics is the study of language data on a large scale-the computer-aided
analysis of very extensive collections of transcribed utterances or written texts. This textbook …

This textbook introduces students to the ways in which techniques from corpus linguistics
can be used to aid sociolinguistic research. Corpus linguistics shares with variationist …

This paper explores keywords, key part-of-speech categories and key semantic categories
and their role in text analysis. The first part of the paper addresses a set of issues relating to …

The UCREL semantic analysis system (USAS) is a software tool for undertaking the
automatic semantic analysis of English spoken and written data. This paper describes the …

When applying corpus linguistic techniques to historical corpora, the corpus researcher
should be cautious about the results obtained. Corpus annotation techniques such as part of …

Frequency-sorted word lists have long been part of the standard methodology for exploiting
corpora. Sinclair (1991: 30) noted that" anyone studying a text is likely to need to know how …

This book is an innovative guide to quantitative, corpus-based research in historical and
diachronic linguistics. Gard B. Jenset and Barbara McGillivray argue that, although historical …

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

In this paper we focus on automatic part-of-speech (POS) annotation, in the context of
historical English texts. Techniques that were originally developed for modern English have …

The frequencies of words in four equal-sized reference corpora of written British English
from 1931, 1961, 1991, and 2006 were compared to investigate patterns of vocabulary …