- Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics
- The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis
- Dedication
- List of Abbreviations
- About the Authors
- Introduction
- Linguistic Units in Language Acquisition
- The Adaptive Approach to Grammar
- The Cartography of Syntactic Structures
- Categorial Grammar
- Cognitive Grammar
- Embodied Construction Grammar
- Sign-Based Construction Grammar
- Conversation Analysis
- Corpus-Based and Corpus-Driven Analyses of Language Variation and Use
- Dependency Grammar and Valency Theory
- An Emergentist Approach to Syntax
- Framework-Free Grammatical Theory
- Functional Discourse Grammar
- Systemic Functional Grammar and the Study of Meaning
- Lexical-Functional Grammar
- Grammaticalization and Linguistic Analysis
- Linguistic Minimalism
- Morphological Analysis
- Neurolinguistics: A Cooperative Computation Perspective
- Experimental Phonetics
- Phonological Analysis
- Optimality Theory in Phonology
- Optimization Principles in the Typology of Number and Articles
- The Parallel Architecture and its Place in Cognitive Science
- Neo-Gricean Pragmatic Theory of Conversational Implicature
- Relevance Theory
- Probabilistic Linguistics
- Linguistic Relativity
- Role and Reference Grammar as a Framework for Linguistic Analysis
- Default Semantics
- Experimental Semantics
- A frames Approach to Semantic Analysis
- The Natural Semantic Metalanguage Approach
- The Analysis of Signed Languages
- Simpler Syntax
- Distributional Typology: Statistical Inquiries into the Dynamics of Linguistic Diversity
- Formal Generative Typology
- Usage-Based Theory
- Word Grammar
- References
- Language Index
- Name Index
- Subject Index
- Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics
Abstract and Keywords
The present chapter introduces the new perspectives on language variation and use that have resulted from investigations of language corpora. Two major analytical approaches are discussed: corpus-based and corpus-driven. The chapter first introduces the corpus-based approach, illustrating how it has been used to document systematic patterns of language use which often show that intuitions about use are wrong. The chapter then illustrates the corpus-driven approach, showing how corpus research of this type can uncover linguistic units that are not detectable using the standard methods of linguistic analysis.
Keywords: corpus-based analysis, corpus-driven analysis, language variation, language use, lexical bundle, pattern grammar, register variation
Douglas Biber is Regents' Professor of English (Applied Linguistics) at Northern Arizona University. His research efforts have focused on corpus linguistics, English grammar, and register variation (in English and cross-linguistic; synchronic and diachronic). His publications include books on register variation and corpus linguistics published by Cambridge University Press (1988, 1995, 1998, to appear), the co-authored Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English (1999), and more recent studies of language use in university settings and discourse structure investigated from a corpus perspective (both published by Benjamins: 2006 and 2007).
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- Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics
- The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis
- Dedication
- List of Abbreviations
- About the Authors
- Introduction
- Linguistic Units in Language Acquisition
- The Adaptive Approach to Grammar
- The Cartography of Syntactic Structures
- Categorial Grammar
- Cognitive Grammar
- Embodied Construction Grammar
- Sign-Based Construction Grammar
- Conversation Analysis
- Corpus-Based and Corpus-Driven Analyses of Language Variation and Use
- Dependency Grammar and Valency Theory
- An Emergentist Approach to Syntax
- Framework-Free Grammatical Theory
- Functional Discourse Grammar
- Systemic Functional Grammar and the Study of Meaning
- Lexical-Functional Grammar
- Grammaticalization and Linguistic Analysis
- Linguistic Minimalism
- Morphological Analysis
- Neurolinguistics: A Cooperative Computation Perspective
- Experimental Phonetics
- Phonological Analysis
- Optimality Theory in Phonology
- Optimization Principles in the Typology of Number and Articles
- The Parallel Architecture and its Place in Cognitive Science
- Neo-Gricean Pragmatic Theory of Conversational Implicature
- Relevance Theory
- Probabilistic Linguistics
- Linguistic Relativity
- Role and Reference Grammar as a Framework for Linguistic Analysis
- Default Semantics
- Experimental Semantics
- A frames Approach to Semantic Analysis
- The Natural Semantic Metalanguage Approach
- The Analysis of Signed Languages
- Simpler Syntax
- Distributional Typology: Statistical Inquiries into the Dynamics of Linguistic Diversity
- Formal Generative Typology
- Usage-Based Theory
- Word Grammar
- References
- Language Index
- Name Index
- Subject Index
- Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics
