"Corpus linguistics is the study of a language as that language is expressed in its text corpus..."
The study of language through the analysis of large electronic databases of language data.
"Corpus linguistics proposes that a reliable analysis of a language is more feasible with corpora collected in the field..."
"The text-corpus method uses the body of texts written in any natural language to derive the set of abstract rules..."
"...collected in the field—the natural context ('realia') of that language..."
"Those results can be used to explore the relationships between that subject language and other languages..."
"The first such corpora were manually derived from source texts..."
"...but now that work is automated."
"Corpora have not only been used for linguistics research, they have also been used to compile dictionaries..."
"...starting with The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language in 1969..."
"John McHardy Sinclair advocates minimal annotation so texts speak for themselves..."
"The Survey of English Usage team (University College, London) advocate annotation..."
"...as allowing greater linguistic understanding through rigorous recording."
"Corpus linguistics proposes that a reliable analysis of a language is more feasible with corpora..."
"The text-corpus method uses the body of texts written in any natural language to derive the set of abstract rules..."
"Those results can be used to explore the relationships between that subject language and other languages..."
"The first such corpora were manually derived from source texts..."
"...but now that work is automated."
"Corpora have not only been used for linguistics research, they have also been used to compile dictionaries..."
"...starting with The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language in 1969..."
"Experts in the field have differing views about the annotation of a corpus..."