Does corpus linguistics exist? Some old and new issues
Jan M.G. Aarts · 2002
This paper deals with a number of methodological questions in corpus linguistics. It discusses various kinds of linguistic data and examines the nature and use of corpus data and the function of corpus annotation. These topics are put within the context of two recent issues in corpus linguistics: the new evidence that has become available from spoken corpora such as COLT and the spoken part of the BNC, and the renewed discussion of corpus linguistic methodology, notably about the distinction between the corpus-based and the corpus-driven approaches.