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Preface; 1. Introduction: goals and methods of the corpus-basedapproach; Part I. Investigating the Use of Language Features: 2.Lexicography; 3. Grammar; 4. Lexico-grammar; 5. The study of discoursecharacteristics; Part II. Investigating the Characteristics of Varieties: 6.Register variation and English for specific purposes; 7. Language acquisitionand development; 8. Historical and stylistic investigations; Part III.Summing Up and Looking Ahead: 9. Conclusion; Part IV. Methodology Boxes: 10.Issues in corpus design; 11. Issues in diachronic corpus design; 12.Concordancing packages versus programming for corpus analysis; 13.Characteristics of tagged corpora; 14. The process of tagging; 15. Normingfrequency counts; 16. Statistical measures of lexical associations; 17. Theunit of analysis in corpus-based studies; 18. Significance tests and thereporting of statistics; 19. Factor loadings and dimension scores; Appendix:commercially available corpora and analytical tools; References; Index.