TY - BOOK AU - Lindquist,Hans AU - Levin,Magnus TI - Corpus linguistics and the description of English T2 - Edinburgh textbooks on the English language SN - 9781474421720 U1 - 410.285 22 PY - 2018///] CY - Edinburgh PB - Edinburgh University Press KW - Corpora (Linguistics) KW - BUEsh KW - Computational linguistics KW - English language KW - HHUUEENN KW - September2019 KW - Reading book N1 - First edition published : 2009; Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - A lively hands-on introduction to the use of electronic corpora in the description and analysis of English, this book provides an ideal introduction for university students of English at the intermediate level. Students planning papers, dissertations or theses will find the book a particularly valuable guide. After introducing corpora and the rationale and basic methodology of corpus linguistics, the author presents a number of case studies providing new insights into vocabulary, collocations, phraseology, metaphor and metonymy, syntactic structures, male and female language, and language change ER -