Corpus Linguistics is a power tool in the analysis of language. Words are not randomly used and reflects our concerns and inner concerns (concepts). Today large amounts of data can be analysed by anyone with access to a personal computer.

Pages

• a glossary of corpus types
• Corpus Linguistics – A Short Introduction
• AntConc Basics
• A Corpus Linguistics Glossary

Blogposts (most recent 100)

• Developing a more functional function word list (3/1/2021)
• A glossary of corpus types (3/16/2017)
• In the reference corpus, we trust (9/5/2016)
• Frequency is everything (8/10/2016)
• “A Corpus Linguistics Glossary” is now complete (7/29/2015)
• word list (7/11/2015)
• case (7/6/2015)
• Keywords List – AntConc (7/12/2014)
• AntWordProfiler short review (4/3/2014)
• type-token ratio (4/3/2014)
• Playing with the ix500 (12/30/2013)
• collocation (12/10/2013)
• ICEWeb – the web as corpus (12/10/2013)
• KWIC (10/20/2013)
• type (10/19/2013)
• token (10/19/2013)
• AntConc Tutorials page updated (9/5/2013)
• Short Book Review – Corpus Linguistics: Method, Theory and Practice (5/27/2013)
• Exposure to Language (5/1/2013)
• A Simple Guide to Using AntConc now in French (3/8/2013)
• Neighbours, highlighting and hiding (2/26/2013)
• Download AntConc (7/13/2012)
• Teaching function words: the cognitive and corpus perspectives (6/8/2012)
• Two new books on corpus linguistics (5/29/2012)
• How to make a frequency word list in AntConc (4/3/2012)
• Understanding translation through corpus (9/14/2011)
• What is meta-text information … and how to get rid of it? (9/1/2011)
• Online Word Document cleaner to plain-text (8/14/2011)
• A Very Short Introduction to Corpus Linguistics (7/4/2011)
• A simple guide to using Antconc (3/5/2011)
• Making a text file manually (3/2/2011)
• Jacet 8000 Level Marker has moved (2/17/2010)
• Developing Linguistic Corpora (1/5/2009)
• Online concordancing (1/2/2009)
• ConcApp 5 (11/20/2008)
• The WordSmith Tools mailing list (10/23/2008)
• Just The Word (3/5/2008)
• Errors in JACET 8000 Level Marker (2/22/2008)
• KH Coder (2/22/2008)
• A Wordsmith Tools discussion list (2/21/2008)
• Two useful pages for Range program (2/20/2008)
• Fixing the ‘Range check error’ in Range (2/13/2008)
• Corsis corpus tool (1/28/2008)
• Wildcards (1/11/2008)
• Concordancing (1/11/2008)
• Opening files; word list; concordance (1/11/2008)
• How to convert Word Document files into plain-text files (1/11/2008)
• Spicelogic – doc to txt converter (12/31/2007)
• Word Count (12/19/2007)
• Corpus Tools page (11/12/2007)
• “Range check error” in Paul Nation’s Range program (11/10/2007)