This volume is grounded on the latest research in empirical contrastive language studies, addressing several issues on contrasts between English and other langu

Contrastive studies have experienced a dramatic revival in the last decades. By combining the methodological advantages of computer corpus linguistics and the p

A linguistic corpus is a collection of texts which have been selected and brought together so that language can be studied on the computer. Today, corpus lingui

Through electronic corpora we can observe patterns which we were unaware of before or only vaguely glimpsed. The availability of multilingual corpora has led to

This book discusses key issues of corpus linguistics like the definition of the corpus, primary features of a corpus, and utilization and limitations of corpora