| Sources and acknowledgements | vii |
| Abbreviations used in this book | xi |
| 1 | Introduction | 1 |
| 2 | From The Structure of English (1952) | 9 |
| 3 | A standard corpus of edited present-day American English (1965) | 27 |
| 4 | On the distribution of noun-phrase types in English clause-structure (1971) | 35 |
| 5 | Predicting text segmentation into tone units (1986) | 49 |
| 6 | Typicality and meaning potentials (1986) | 58 |
| 7 | Historical drift in three English genres (1987) | 67 |
| 8 | Corpus creation (1987) | 78 |
| 9 | Cleft and pseudo-cleft constructions in English spoken and written discourse (1987) | 85 |
| 10 | What is wrong with adding one? (1989) | 95 |
| 11 | A statistical approach to machine translation (1990) | 103 |
| 12 | A point of verb syntax in south-western British English: an analysis of a dialect continuum (1991) | 113 |
| 13 | Using corpus data in the Swedish Academy grammar (1991) | 122 |
| 14 | On the history of that/zero as object clause links in English (1991) | 137 |
| 15 | Encoding the British National Corpus (1992) | 149 |
| 16 | Computer corpora--what do they tell us about culture? (1992) | 160 |
| 17 | Representativeness in corpus design (1992) | 174 |
| 18 | A corpus-driven approach to grammar: Principles, Methods, and Examples (1993) | 198 |
| 19 | Structural ambiguity and lexical relations (1993) | 212 |
| 20 | Irony in the text or insincerity in the writer? The diagnostic potential of semantic prosodies (1993) | 229 |
| 21 | Building a large annotated corpus of English: the Penn Treebank (1993) | 242 |
| 22 | Automatically extracting collocations from corpora for language learning (1994) | 258 |
| 23 | Developing and evaluating a probabilistic LR parser of part-of-speech and punctuation labels (1995) | 267 |
| 24 | Why a Fiji corpus? (1996) | 276 |
| 25 | Treebank grammars (1996) | 285 |
| 26 | English corpus linguistics and the foreign-language teaching syllabus (1996) | 293 |
| 27 | Data-oriented language processing: an overview (1996) | 304 |
| 28 | Conflict talk: A comparison of the verbal disputes between adolescent females in two corpora (1996) | 326 |
| 29 | Assessing agreement on classification tasks: the kappa statistic (1996) | 335 |
| 30 | Linguistic and interactional features of Internet Relay Chat (1996) | 340 |
| 31 | Distinguishing systems and distinguishing senses: New evaluation methods for word-sense disambiguation (1997) | 353 |
| 32 | Qualification and certainty in L1 and L2 students' writing (1997) | 371 |
| 33 | Analysing and predicting patterns of DAMSL utterance tags (1998) | 387 |
| 34 | Assessing claims about language use with corpus data--swearing and abuse (1998) | 396 |
| 35 | The syntax of disfluency in spontaneous spoken language (1998) | 404 |
| 36 | The use of large text corpora for evaluating text-to-speech systems (1998) | 421 |
| 37 | The Prague Dependency Treebank: how much of the underlying syntactic structure can be tagged automatically? (1999) | 427 |
| 38 | Reflections of a dendrographer (1999) | 434 |
| 39 | A generic approach to software support for linguistic annotation using XML (2000) | 449 |
| 40 | Europe's ignored languages (2001) | 460 |
| 41 | Semi-automatic tagging of intonation in French spoken corpora (2001) | 462 |
| 42 | Web as corpus (2001) | 471 |
| 43 | Intonational variation in the British Isles (2002) | 474 |
| Bibliography | 483 |
| URL List | 509 |
| Index | 511 |
