This handbook provides an up-to-date survey of corpus linguistics. Spoken,
written, or multimodal corpora serve as the basis for quantitative and
qualitative research on many questions of linguistic interest.
The volume comprises 61 articles by internationally renowned experts. They
sketch the history of corpus linguistics and its relationship with
neighboring disciplines, show its potential, discuss its problems, and
describe various methods of collecting, annotating, and searching corpora,
as well as processing corpus data.
*up-to-date and complete handbook
*includes both an overview and detailed discussions
*gathers together a great number of experts