THE NEED FOR CORPUS DATA
Abstract
Broadly speaking, science is the study of some aspect of the (physical, natural or social) world by means of systematic observation and experimentation, and linguistics is the scientific study of those aspects of the world that we summarize under the label language. Again very broadly, these encompass, first, language systems (sets of linguistic elements and rules for combining them) as well as mental representations of these systems, and second, expressions of these systems (spoken and written utterances) as well as mental and motorsensory processes involved in the production and perception of these expressions.
Keywords
Corpus, crudely, a large collection of authentic text, genuine communicative situations, corpus linguistics.
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