| Sources and acknowledgements | p. vii |
| Abbreviations used in this book | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| From The Structure of English (1952) | p. 9 |
| A standard corpus of edited present-day American English (1965) | p. 27 |
| On the distribution of noun-phrase types in English clause-structure (1971) | p. 35 |
| Predicting text segmentation into tone units (1986) | p. 49 |
| Typicality and meaning potentials (1986) | p. 58 |
| Historical drift in three English genres (1987) | p. 67 |
| Corpus creation (1987) | p. 78 |
| Cleft and pseudo-cleft constructions in English spoken and written discourse (1987) | p. 85 |
| What is wrong with adding one? (1989) | p. 95 |
| A statistical approach to machine translation (1990) | p. 103 |
| A point of verb syntax in south-western British English: an analysis of a dialect continuum (1991) | p. 113 |
| Using corpus data in the Swedish Academy grammar (1991) | p. 122 |
| On the history of that/zero as object clause links in English (1991) | p. 137 |
| Encoding the British National Corpus (1992) | p. 149 |
| Computer corpora - what do they tell us about culture? (1992) | p. 160 |
| Representativeness in corpus design (1992) | p. 174 |
| A corpus-driven approach to grammar: Principles, Methods, and Examples (1993) | p. 198 |
| Structural ambiguity and lexical relations (1993) | p. 212 |
| Irony in the text or insincerity in the writer? The diagnostic potential of semantic prosodies (1993) | p. 229 |
| Building a large annotated corpus of English: the Penn Treebank (1993) | p. 242 |
| Automatically extracting collocations from corpora for language learning (1994) | p. 258 |
| Developing and evaluating a probabilistic LR parser of part-of-speech and punctuation labels (1995) | p. 267 |
| Why a Fiji corpus? (1996) | p. 276 |
| Treebank grammars (1996) | p. 285 |
| English corpus linguistics and the foreign-language teaching syllabus (1996) | p. 293 |
| Data-oriented language processing: an overview (1996) | p. 304 |
| Conflict talk: A comparison of the verbal disputes between adolescent females in two corpora (1996) | p. 326 |
| Assessing agreement on classification tasks: the kappa statistic (1996) | p. 335 |
| Linguistic and interactional features of Internet Relay Chat (1996) | p. 340 |
| Distinguishing systems and distinguishing senses: New evaluation methods for word-sense disambiguation (1997) | p. 353 |
| Qualification and certainty in L1 and L2 students' writing (1997) | p. 371 |
| Analysing and predicting patterns of DAMSL utterance tags (1998) | p. 387 |
| Assessing claims about language use with corpus data - swearing and abuse (1998) | p. 396 |
| The syntax of disfluency in spontaneous spoken language (1998) | p. 404 |
| The use of large text corpora for evaluating text-to-speech systems (1998) | p. 421 |
| The Prague Dependency Treebank: how much of the underlying syntactic structure can be tagged automatically? (1999) | p. 427 |
| Reflections of a dendrographer (1999) | p. 434 |
| A generic approach to software support for linguistic annotation using XML (2000) | p. 449 |
| Europe's ignored languages (2001) | p. 460 |
| Semi-automatic tagging of intonation in French spoken corpora (2001) | p. 462 |
| Web as corpus (2001) | p. 471 |
| Intonational variation in the British Isles (2002) | p. 474 |
| Bibliography | p. 483 |
| URL List | p. 509 |
| Index | p. 511 |
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