1 Introduction:goals and methods of the corpus-based approach 1
Part Ⅰ Investigating the use of language features 19
2 Lexicography 21
3 Grammar 55
4 Lexico-grammar 84
5 The study of discourse characteristics 106
Part Ⅱ Investigating the characteristics of varieties 133
6 Register variation and English for Specific Purposes 135
7 Language acquisition and development 172
8 Historical and stylistic investigations 203
Part Ⅲ Summing up and looking ahead 231
9 Conclusion 233
Part Ⅳ Methodology boxes 243
1 Issues in corpus design 246
2 Issues in diachronic corpus design 251
3 Concordancing packages versus programming for corpus analysis 254
4 Characteristics of tagged corpora 257
5 The process of tagging 261
6 Norming frequency counts 263
7 Statistical measures of lexical associations 265
8 The unit of analysis in corpus-based studies 269
9 Significance tests and the reporting of statistics 275
10 Factor loadings and dimension scores 278
Appendix:commercially available corpora and analytical tools 281
References 288
Index 297
文库索引 301