Edinburgh Textbooks in Empirical Linguistics
Empirical linguistics is enjoying a renaissance with the increasing availability and
convenience of large data banks (or "corpora") or natural language, and the realization
that theory needs to be firmly based on language as it is, rather than imposed from
above on unwilling data. This new textbook series provides accessible introductions
aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students of linguistics, modern languages, and
computing who are using corpus-based approaches in their study of language.
International Editorial Advisory Board
Ed Finegan, University of Southern California, USA
Dieter Mindt, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Bengt Altenberg, Lund University, Sweden
Knut Hofland, Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities, Bergen, Norway
Jan Aarts, Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Pam Peters, Macquarie University, Australia
Geoffrey Pullum, University of Southern California, USA
The series consists of three core volumes introducing empirical linguistics itself,
with further volumes focusing on particular areas of language study (e.g. stylistics;
lexicography) from an empirical perspective. Each volume contains:
- End-of-chapter summaries, study questions and exercises for individual and class use
- A glossary of corpus-related terms
- Appendices giving details of the location of corpora, details of available software, and
answers to the study questions
- Case studies from real research using examples taken from corpora of natural language
The core titles are:
Corpus Linguistics
Tony McEnery and Andrew Wilson
Published: July 1996
The emphasis is on practical understanding, considering the subject's background,
contemporary applications, and future potential.
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Language and Computers
Geoffrey Barnbrook
Published: July 1996
This book provides the basic tool kit for anyone approaching corpus-based
research for the first time, from a variety of disciplines.
Statistics for Corpus Linguistics
Michael Oakes
Publication: January 1998
Encourages the practical exploitation of empirical data through individual and
class exercises.