I-IV -- Preface -- Symposium participants -- Opening address -- Introduction -- Corpus linguistics comes of age -- Historical conspectus -- Language corpora B.C. -- Theoretical issues -- "Corpus linguistics" or "Computer-aided armchair linguistics" -- Language as system and language as instance: The corpus as a theoretical construct -- The importance of corpus linguistics to understanding the nature of language -- Corpora and theories of linguistic performance -- Corpus design and development -- Design principles in the transcription of spoken discourse -- Modern Swedish text corpora -- A new corpus of English: ICE -- The diachronic corpus as a window to the history of English -- Exploration and application of corpora -- Using computer-based text corpora to analyze the referential strategies of spoken and written texts -- Rationality in everyday talk: From process to system -- Using corpus data in the Swedish Academy grammar -- Preferred ways of putting things with implications for language teaching -- The automatic analysis of corpora -- The odd couple: The linguist and the software engineer. The struggle for high quality computerized language aids. -- Probabilistic parsing -- Postscript -- On corpus principles and design -- Afterword -- Index of personal names -- Subject index -- 488