i-iv -- Preface -- Contents -- Part I. Corpus design and text encoding -- The optimum corpus sample size? -- Corpus sampling -- International Corpus of English: Corpus design - problems and suggested solutions -- The Northern Ireland Transcribed Corpus of Speech -- Problems in the compilation of a corpus of standard Caribbean English: A pilot study -- The Text Encoding Initiative: A progress report -- Part II. Automated syntactic and semantic text analysis -- Pinpointing problematic tagging decisions -- Inferences and lexical relations -- Developing a scheme for annotating text to show anaphoric relations -- Information retrieval and corpora -- Part III. Corpora in language description -- Relative infinitives in spoken and written English -- Who(m)? Case marking of wh-pronouns in written British and American English -- Discourse category and text type classification: Procedural discourse in the Brown and the LOB corpora -- Opaque and transparent features of Indian English -- Computer analysis of spelling variants in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales -- Pitch contours and tones in the Lancaster/IBM spoken English corpus -- What do you think of that: A pilot study of the phraseology of the core words of English -- Sequences of spatial and temporal adverbials in spoken and written English -- Grammatical or nativelike? -- Collocation and bilingual text -- Key Word Index -- 369-370