Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1 Early Corpus Linguistics and the Chomskyan Revolution -- 2 What is a Corpus and What is in It? -- 3 Quantitative Data -- 4 The Use of Corpora in Language Studies -- 5 Corpora and Language Engineering -- 6 A Case Study: Sublanguages -- 7 Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards -- Glossary -- Appendix A: Corpora Mentioned in the Text -- Appendix B: Some Software for Corpus Research -- Appendix C: Suggested Solutions to Exercises -- Bibliography -- Index