What are the basics of analysing a corpus?

The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 122-135

  Evison, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203856949-13     Document Type: Chapter

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