Input a word, analyse the world: selected approaches to corpus linguistics

Input a Word, Analyse the World represents current perspectives on Corpus Linguistics (CL) from a variety of linguistic subdisciplines.

Corpus Linguistics has proven itself an excellent methodology for the study of language variation and change, and is well-suited for interdisciplinary collaboration, as shown by the studies in this volume.

Its title is inspired by the use of CL to assess language in different registers and with a variety of purposes.

This collection contains thirty contributions by scholars in the field from across the globe, dealing with current topics on corpus production and corpus tools; lexical analysis, phraseology and grammar; translation and contrastive linguistics; and language learning.

Language specialists will find these papers inspiring, as they present new insights on aspects related to research and teaching.