Geoffrey Sampson and Diana McCarthy (eds.). Corpus Linguistics: Readings in a Widening Discipline.

International audienceFrom its humble beginnings in the sixties when access to computers was only for the happy few, the corpus linguistic research paradigm has gradually developed, to finally explode with first the advent of the personal computer, and, in more recent years, access to large reference corpora and vast amounts of online data. This last factor is in itself transforming this young discipline, raising new questions and questioning some of its basic precepts. This book will help show where the field may be going, and show the great wealth of approaches to the object of study that is a corpus