Brill Corpus linguistics on the move: Exploring and understanding English through corpora: 79 (Language and Computers, 79)

Corpus linguistics on the move: Exploring and understanding English through corpora comprises fourteen contributions covering key issues in English corpus linguistics, including corpus compilation and annotation, original perspectives from specialized corpora, and insightful discussions of various grammatical and pragmatic features. Review Honoured with the 2017 AESLA Research Award of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics.The volume's major strength lies in the diversified topics presented in the chapters, which offer an impressive glance at the current research trends in corpus linguistics. Many chapters (especially those in Part I) include detailed descriptions of how their target corpora are compiled, parsed, and annotated, and these valuable pieces of information make the volume an ideal reference for researchers considering incorporating corpus-driven approaches into their own research. Another strength of the volume is its recognition of two important trends in World English: the exponential growth of advanced ESL learners and the proliferation of English varieties. The insightful discussions on both topics throughout the volume can be particularly illuminating for scholars working on language change and variation. - Sibo Chen - Simon Fraser University, on: Linguistlist.org About the Author María José López-Couso, Ph.D. (1994), is Senior Lecturer at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Her main research interests include complementation, existentials, and parentheticals, on which she has published extensively. She is a member of the ICAME Executive Board. Belén Méndez-Naya, Ph.D. (1995), is Senior Lecturer at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Her main areas of research are complementation, intensifiers, parentheticals, and pragmatic markers. She is a member of the Editorial Board of Folia Linguistica (Mouton). Paloma Núñez-Pertejo, Ph.D. (2001), is Senior Lecturer at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. She has published mainly on the progressive, youth language, and intensification. She is a member of the Editorial Board of English Linguistics Research (Sciedu Press).Ignacio M. Palacios-Martínez, Ph.D. (1992), is Senior Lecturer at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and Director of SPERTUS (Spoken English Research Team at the University of Santiago). He has published extensively on quotatives, vague language, and negative polarity.