Contents // Preface Page ix // 1 Introduction: goals and methods of the // corpus-based approach 1 // Part I Investigating the use of // language features 19 // 2 Lexicography 21 // 3 Grammar 5 5 // 4 Lexico-grammar 84 // 5 The study of discourse characteristics 106 // Part II Investigating the characteristics of varieties 133 // 6 Register variation and English for Specific // Purposes 135 // 7 Language acquisition and development 172 // 8 Historical and stylistic investigations 203 // Part III Summing up and looking // ahead 231 // 9 Conclusion 233 // Part IV Methodology boxes 243 // 1 Issues in corpus design 246 // 2 Issues in diachronic corpus design 251 // viz // viii Contents // 3 Concordancing packages versus programming // for corpus analysis 254 // 4 Characteristics of tagged corpora 257 // 5 The process of tagging 261 // 6 Norming frequency counts 263 // 7 Statistical measures of lexical associations 265 // 8 The unit of analysis in corpus-based studies 269 // 9 Significance tests and the reporting of statistics 275 // 10 Factor loadings and dimension scores 278 // Appendix: commercially available corpora and analytical tools 281 // References 288 // ?Q7 // Index y ’