Count data is prevalent in many different areas of linguistics, such as when counting words,
syntactic constructions, discourse particles, case markers, or speech errors. The Poisson …

This study aims to provide the first empirical assessment of quantitative research methods
and study quality in learner corpus research. We systematically review quantitative primary …

A lively hands-on introduction to the use of electronic corpora in the description and analysis
of English The second edition of this successful text provides an ideal introduction for …

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 …

Das Buch vermittelt Grundlagen und Möglichkeiten der Korpuslinguistik als Methodik: von
Korpusaufbereitung über Korpusrecherche bis hin zu innovativen strukturentdeckenden …

Collocation is a common language phenomenon which has attracted the interest of
researchers in many subfields of both theoretical and computational linguistics. Although …

By its very nature, corpus linguistics is a distributional discipline. In fact, it has been argued
that corpora as such contain nothing but distributional frequency data, more specifically …

3.1 Preliminaries 29 3.1. 1 On the identification of purpose clause constructions 29 3.1. 2 On
the quantitative analysis of constructions 33 3.2 Coding of the situation: The form of the verb …

Quantitative studies in linguistics almost always involve data points that are related to each
other, such as multiple data points from the same participant, multiple texts from the same …

Abstract The Google Ngram Corpora seem to offer a unique opportunity to study linguistic
and cultural change in quantitative terms. To avoid breaking any copyright laws, the data …