Corpus Perspectives on Legal Discourse
Edited by David Wright
Special issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 31:1 (2026) v, 138 pp.
BIC SubjectsComputational linguistics
Mathematical Modelling in Linguistics and Text Analysis: Theory and applications
Edited by Adam Pawłowski, Sheila Embleton, Jan Mačutek and Aris Xanthos
This book is a panorama of contemporary quantitative linguistics, as developed over decades. It highlights the main topics of QL: statistical laws of language, taxonomy of linguistic phenomena, authorial attribution, quantitative analysis of syntax (e.g., dependency grammar), measurement of text… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 370] 2025. vi, 241 pp.
Reproducibility, Replicability, and Robustness in Corpus Linguistics
Edited by Martin Schweinberger and Michael Haugh
Special issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 30:2 (2025) v, 145 pp.
Challenges in Corpus Linguistics: Rethinking corpus compilation and analysis
Edited by Mark Kaunisto and Marco Schilk
This book contributes to the discussion of challenges faced in different areas of corpus linguistics, namely the compilation, annotation, and analysis of linguistic corpora. In a field of growing corpus sizes and expanding possibilities of gathering data, some old issues persist, while at the same… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 118] 2024. vii, 172 pp.
Corpus Approaches to Business Communication
Edited by Mathew Gillings and Susanne Kopf
Special issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 29:3 (2024) iv, 149 pp.
Crossing Boundaries through Corpora: Innovative corpus approaches within and beyond linguistics
Edited by Sarah Buschfeld, Patricia Ronan, Theresa Neumaier, Andreas Weilinghoff and Lisa Westermayer
This volume illustrates new trends in corpus linguistics and shows how corpus approaches can be used to investigate new datasets and emerging areas in linguistics and related fields. It addresses innovative research questions, for example how prosodic analyses can increase the accuracy of syntactic… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 119] 2024. vi, 265 pp.
Frequency, Dispersion, Association, and Keyness: Revising and tupleizing corpus-linguistic measures
Stefan Th. Gries
This book is an attempt to revisit the main specifically corpus-linguistic statistics/measures the field has been relying on for decades: frequency, dispersion, association, and keyness. The book first discusses the purpose of these measures and how they have been measured. Then, the book makes… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 115] 2024. vii, 321 pp.
Investigating Wikipedia: Linguistic corpus building, exploration and analysis
Edited by Céline Poudat, Harald Lüngen and Laura Herzberg
The present volume is intended as a reference book on Wikipedia corpus studies, from corpus construction to exploration and analysis. Wikipedia is a complex object, difficult to manipulate for linguists and corpus researchers. In addition to the encyclopedic articles consulted by millions of users,… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 121] 2024. vi, 264 pp.
Textbook English: A multi-dimensional approach
Elen Le Foll
This book provides a systematic, empirical account of the language typically presented in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) textbooks, based on a large corpus of EFL textbooks used in secondary schools. A modified version of the Multi-Dimensional Analysis (MDA) framework serves to examine… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 116] 2024. xix, 294 pp.
Corpus studies of language through time: Special issue of the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 27:4 (2022)
Edited by Tony McEnery, Gavin Brookes and Isobelle Clarke
Special issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 27:4 (2022) v, 161 pp.
Beyond Concordance Lines: Corpora in language education
Edited by Pascual Pérez-Paredes and Geraldine Mark
In over 30 years of data-driven learning (DDL) research, there has been a growing sophistication in the ways we collect, analyse, and put corpus data to use. This volume takes a three-fold perspective on DDL. It first looks at DDL and its role in informing language learning theory and how it might… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 102] 2021. ix, 255 pp.
Corpus approaches to telecinematic language
Edited by Monika Bednarek, Valentin Werner and Marcia Veirano Pinto
Special issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 26:1 (2021) v, 160 pp.
Language and Covid-19
Edited by Michaela Mahlberg and Gavin Brookes
Special issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 26:4 (2021) v, 158 pp.
Language and Text: Data, models, information and applications
Edited by Adam Pawłowski, Jan Mačutek, Sheila Embleton and George Mikros
Specialists in quantitative linguistics the world over have recourse to a solid and universal methodology. These days, their methods and mathematical models must also respond to new communication phenomena and the flood of data produced daily. While various disciplines (computer science, media… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 356] 2021. vi, 280 pp.
The Swedish FrameNet++: Harmonization, integration, method development and practical language technology applications
Edited by Dana Dannélls, Lars Borin and Karin Friberg Heppin
Large computational lexicons are central NLP resources. Swedish FrameNet++ aims to be a versatile full-scale lexical resource for NLP containing many kinds of linguistic information. Although focused on Swedish, this ongoing effort, which includes building a new Swedish framenet and recycling… read more
Corpus Approaches to Social Media
Edited by Sofia Rüdiger and Daria Dayter
From Twitter to Reddit, Facebook, and WhatsApp – social media is a part of modern everyday life. Studying the language used on social media platforms presents great opportunities as well as challenges to corpus linguists. The contributions in Corpus Approaches to Social Media address technical,… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 98] 2020. vi, 210 pp.
Visual Linguistics with R: A practical introduction to quantitative Interactional Linguistics
Christoph Rühlemann
This book is a textbook on R, a programming language and environment for statistical analysis and visualization. Its primary aim is to introduce R as a research instrument in quantitative Interactional Linguistics. Focusing on visualization in R, the book presents original case studies on… read more[Not in series, 228] 2020. ix, 258 pp.
Constructions in Applied Linguistics
Edited by Susan Hunston and Florent Perek
Special issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 24:3 (2019) v, 150 pp.
Learning the Language of Dentistry: Disciplinary corpora in the teaching of English for Specific Academic Purposes
Peter Crosthwaite and Lisa Cheung
This book explores the affordances of disciplinary corpora for the teaching and learning of the language of dentistry, within the field of English for Specific Academic Purposes (ESAP). We extract disciplinary register features and vocabulary from three key genres of the dentistry discipline… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 93] 2019. xiv, 222 pp.
Parallel Corpora for Contrastive and Translation Studies: New resources and applications
Edited by Irene Doval and M. Teresa Sánchez Nieto
This volume assesses the state of the art of parallel corpus research as a whole, reporting on advances in both recent developments of parallel corpora – with some particular references to comparable corpora as well– and in ways of exploiting them for a variety of purposes. The first part of the… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 90] 2019. ix, 301 pp.
Applications of Pattern-driven Methods in Corpus Linguistics
Edited by Joanna Kopaczyk and Jukka Tyrkkö
The use of corpora has conventionally been envisioned as being either corpus-based or corpus-driven. While the formal definition of the latter term has been widely accepted since it was established by Tognini-Bonelli (2001), it is often applied to studies that do not, in fact, fullfil the… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 82] 2018. vii, 313 pp.
The Corpus Linguistics Discourse: In honour of Wolfgang Teubert
Edited by Anna Čermáková and Michaela Mahlberg
With an ever-growing body of corpus linguistic tools, resources and applications, it becomes increasingly important to reflect critically on the underlying assumptions that corpus linguistics is based on. Focusing on meaning and methods, this book tackles fundamental concepts and approaches that… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 87] 2018. vi, 261 pp.
Compiling and analysing the Spoken British National Corpus 2014
Edited by Tony McEnery, Robbie Love and Vaclav Brezina
Special issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 22:3 (2017) v, 145 pp.
Cross-linguistic Correspondences: From lexis to genre
Edited by Thomas Egan and Hildegunn Dirdal
Contrastive Linguistics is an expanding field, as witnessed by the publication in recent years of an increasing number of monographs, collected volumes and journal articles. The present volume, which comprises an introduction and ten chapters dealing with lexical contrasts between English and other… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 191] 2017. vii, 298 pp.
Lexical Priming: Applications and advances
Edited by Michael Pace-Sigge and Katie J. Patterson
Published in 2005, Michael Hoey’s Lexical Priming – A new theory of words and language introduced a completely new theory of language based on how words are used in the real world. In the ten years that have passed, the theory has since gained traction in the field of corpus-linguistics. This… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 79] 2017. xxiii, 309 pp.
Compilation, transcription, markup and annotation of spoken corpora
Edited by John M. Kirk and Gisle Andersen
Special issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 21:3 (2016) iii, 148 pp.
Corpus-based Approaches to Construction Grammar
Edited by Jiyoung Yoon and Stefan Th. Gries
This volume brings together empirical Construction Grammar studies to (i) promote cross-fertilization between researchers interested in constructional approaches on various languages, and (ii) further the growing trend towards empirically rigorous research that takes seriously a commitment not only… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 19] 2016. vi, 268 pp.
Corpora, Grammar and Discourse: In honour of Susan Hunston
Edited by Nicholas Groom, Maggie Charles and Suganthi John
Corpus linguistics has had a revolutionary impact on grammar and discourse research. Not only has it opened up entirely new theoretical perspectives and methodological possibilities for both fields, but it has also to a considerable extent erased the boundaries that have traditionally been drawn… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 73] 2015. xvi, 310 pp.
Corpus-based Research in Applied Linguistics: Studies in Honor of Doug Biber
Edited by Viviana Cortes and Eniko Csomay
This volume comprises nine contributions that were written by up-and-coming corpus-based researchers with varied areas of expertise, who were all disciples of Douglas Biber sometime in the past two decades. These papers cover a wide variety of linguistic analyses and describe the principles of the… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 66] 2015. xix, 219 pp.
Corpus-based Studies of Lesser-described Languages: The CorpAfroAs corpus of spoken AfroAsiatic languages
Edited by Amina Mettouchi, Martine Vanhove and Dominique Caubet
This volume presents new findings based on the analysis of spoken corpora in thirteen different Afro-Asiatic languages – a unique endeavor in the domain of lesser-described languages. It will be of interest to corpus linguists, general linguists, typologists, and linguists specializing in… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 68] 2015. vi, 338 pp.
Current Issues in Phraseology
Edited by Sebastian Hoffmann, Bettina Fischer-Starcke and Andrea Sand
In this stimulating collection of papers, leading researchers from Europe and North America demonstrate the theoretical and methodological importance of corpus studies of phraseology and show how data-intensive case studies provide new perspectives on language use. One of the main theoretical… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 74] 2015. viii, 166 pp.
How to do Linguistics with R: Data exploration and statistical analysis
Natalia Levshina
This book provides a linguist with a statistical toolkit for exploration and analysis of linguistic data. It employs R, a free software environment for statistical computing, which is increasingly popular among linguists. How to do Linguistics with R: Data exploration and statistical analysis is… read more[Not in series, 195] 2015. xi, 443 pp.
The (Ir)reversibility of English Binomials: Corpus, constraints, developments
Sandra Mollin
This book focuses on binomials (word pairs such as heart and soul, rich and poor, or if and when), and in particular on the degree of reversibility that English binomials demonstrate. Detailed and innovative corpus linguistic analyses investigate the correlates of the degree of reversibility,… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 64] 2014. x, 254 pp.
Biomedical Natural Language Processing
Kevin Bretonnel Cohen and Dina Demner-Fushman
Biomedical Natural Language Processing is a comprehensive tour through the classic and current work in the field. It discusses all subjects from both a rule-based and a machine learning approach, and also describes each subject from the perspective of both biological science and clinical medicine.… read more[Natural Language Processing, 11] 2014. xi, 160 pp.
Language Processing and Grammars: The role of functionally oriented computational models
Edited by Brian Nolan and Carlos Periñán-Pascual
There is a growing awareness of the significance and value that modelling using information technology can bring to the functionally oriented linguistic enterprise. This encompasses a spectrum of areas as diverse as concept modelling, language processing and grammar modelling, conversational… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 150] 2014. vi, 396 pp.
Lexical Bundles in Native and Non-native Scientific Writing: Applying a corpus-based study to language teaching
Danica Salazar
This book presents an investigation of lexical bundles in native and non-native scientific writing in English, whose aim is to produce a frequency-derived, statistically- and qualitatively-refined list of the most pedagogically useful lexical bundles in scientific prose: one that can be sorted and… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 65] 2014. ix, 212 pp.
Literary Detective Work on the Computer
Michael P. Oakes
Computational linguistics can be used to uncover mysteries in text which are not always obvious to visual inspection. For example, the computer analysis of writing style can show who might be the true author of a text in cases of disputed authorship or suspected plagiarism. The theoretical… read more[Natural Language Processing, 12] 2014. x, 283 pp.
Multi-Dimensional Analysis, 25 years on: A tribute to Douglas Biber
Edited by Tony Berber Sardinha and Marcia Veirano Pinto
Approximately a quarter of a century ago, the Multi-Dimensional (MD) approach—one of the most powerful (and controversial) methods in Corpus Linguistics—saw its first book-length treatment. In its eleven chapters, this volume presents all new contributions covering a wide range of written and… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 60] 2014. xxxviii, 328 pp.
Spoken Corpora and Linguistic Studies
Edited by Tommaso Raso and Heliana Mello
The authors of this book share a common interest in the following topics: the importance of corpora compilation for the empirical study of human language; the importance of pragmatic categories such as emotion, attitude, illocution and information structure in linguistic theory; and a passionate… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 61] 2014. vii, 498 pp.
Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics: Studies in honour of Stig Johansson
Edited by Karin Aijmer and Bengt Altenberg
Contrastive studies have experienced a dramatic revival in the last decades. By combining the methodological advantages of computer corpus linguistics and the possibility of contrasting texts in two or more languages, the structure and use of languages can be explored with greater accuracy, detail… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 54] 2013. x, 295 pp.
Modelling Language
Sylviane Cardey
In response to the need for reliable results from natural language processing, this book presents an original way of decomposing a language(s) in a microscopic manner by means of intra/inter‑language norms and divergences, going progressively from languages as systems to the linguistic,… read more[Natural Language Processing, 10] 2013. xi, 194 pp.
Patterns and Meanings in Discourse: Theory and practice in corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS)
Alan Partington, Alison Duguid and Charlotte Taylor
This work is designed, firstly, to both provoke theoretical discussion and serve as a practical guide for researchers and students in the field of corpus linguistics and, secondly, to offer a wide-ranging introduction to corpus techniques for practitioners of discourse studies. It delves into a… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 55] 2013. xiii, 371 pp.
Experiments in Cultural Language Evolution
Edited by Luc Steels
The fascinating question of the origins and evolution of language has been drawing a lot of attention recently, not only from linguists, but also from anthropologists, evolutionary biologists, and brain scientists. This groundbreaking book explores the cultural side of language evolution. It… read more[Advances in Interaction Studies, 3] 2012. xii, 306 pp.
Exploring Newspaper Language: Using the web to create and investigate a large corpus of modern Norwegian
Edited by Gisle Andersen
This book describes new methodological and technological approaches to corpus building and presents recent research based on the Norwegian Newspaper Corpus. This is a large monitor corpus of contemporary Norwegian language, compiled through daily harvesting of web newspapers. The book gives an… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 49] 2012. vi, 356 pp.
Middle and Modern English Corpus Linguistics: A multi-dimensional approach
Edited by Manfred Markus, Yoko Iyeiri, Reinhard Heuberger and Emil Chamson
This book brings together a variety of approaches to English corpus linguistics and shows how corpus methodologies can contribute to the linking of diachronic and synchronic studies. The articles in this volume investigate historical changes in the English language as well as specific aspects of… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 50] 2012. viii, 287 pp.
Design Patterns in Fluid Construction Grammar
Edited by Luc Steels
Construction Grammar is enthusiastically embraced by a growing group of linguists who find it a natural way to formulate their analyses. But so far there is no widespread formalization of construction grammar with a solid computational implementation. Fluid Construction Grammar attempts to fill… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 11] 2011. xi, 332 pp.
A Taste for Corpora: In honour of Sylviane Granger
Edited by Fanny Meunier, Sylvie De Cock, Gaëtanelle Gilquin and Magali Paquot
The eleven contributions to this volume, written by expert corpus linguists, tackle corpora from a wide range of perspectives and aim to shed light on the numerous linguistic and pedagogical uses to which corpora can be put. They present cutting-edge research in the authors’ respective domain of… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 45] 2011. xv, 295 pp.
Corpus, Cognition and Causative Constructions
Gaëtanelle Gilquin
English causative constructions with cause, get, have and make are often mistakenly presented as (quasi-)synonymous and more or less interchangeable. This book demonstrates the value of corpus linguistics in identifying the syntactic, semantic, lexical and stylistic features that are distinctive… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 39] 2010. xvii, 326 pp.
ConcGram 1.0: A phraseological search engine
Chris Greaves
ConcGram 1.0 is a corpus linguistics software package which is specifically designed to find all the co-occurrences of words in a text or corpus irrespective of variation. The software finds the co-occurrences fully automatically, in other words, the user inputs no prior search commands. These… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics Software, 1] 2009. CD-Rom
Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing V: Selected papers from RANLP 2007
Edited by Nicolas Nicolov, Galia Angelova and Ruslan Mitkov
This volume brings together revised versions of a selection of papers presented at the Sixth International Conference on “Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing” (RANLP) held in Borovets, Bulgaria, 27–29 September 2007. These papers cover a wide variety of Natural Language Processing (NLP)… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 309] 2009. x, 338 pp.
Words, Grammar, Text: Revisiting the work of John Sinclair
Edited by Rosamund Moon
John Sinclair’s work is widely known and has had a far-reaching influence, particularly in the areas of corpus linguistics, lexis, phraseology, lexicography, grammar, and discourse analysis. This collection of papers, written by former colleagues at Birmingham University, looks at some key writings… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 18] 2009. viii, 124 pp.
Corpus-Based Perspectives in Linguistics
Edited by Yuji Kawaguchi, Toshihiro Takagaki, Nobuo Tomimori and Yoichiro Tsuruga
UBLI has conducted field surveys since 2002 and built spoken language corpora for French, Spanish, Italian (Salentino dialect), Russian, Malaysian, Turkish, Japanese, and Canadian multilinguals. This volume features new research presented at the UBLI second workshop on Corpus Linguistics – Research… read more[Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics, 6] 2007. vi, 442 pp.
Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing IV: Selected papers from RANLP 2005
Edited by Nicolas Nicolov, Kalina Bontcheva, Galia Angelova and Ruslan Mitkov
This volume brings together selected and revised papers from the international conference on “Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing”, held in Borovets, Bulgaria, in September 2005. The best papers have been selected for this volume with the aim to reflect the most promising and significant… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 292] 2007. xii, 307 pp.