This book provides a hands–on introduction to qualitative and especially quantitative corpus–linguistics methods, dealing with both the conceptual and the practical side of conducting corpus–linguistic case studies. The main focus of this book is to illustrate how a wide range of research questions can be tackled with corpus linguistic methods that involve only a modest number of technical hurdles as well as to gently guide the researcher through the technicalities of some more complex methods.

Methods of Corpus Linguistics is aimed at a broad audience of linguists, presenting both basic and modern methods of corpus linguistics.