List of Figures xviii
List of Tables xxii
About This Book xxv
Acknowledgements xxvii
1 Introduction:Statistics Meets Corpus Linguistics 1
2 Vocabulary:Frequency,Dispersion and Diversity 38
3 Semantics and Discourse:Collocations,Keywords and Reliability of Manual Coding 66
4 Lexico-grammar:From Simple Counts to Complex Models 102
5 Register Variation:Correlation,Clusters and Factors 139
6 Sociolinguistics and Stylistics:Individual and Social Variation 183
7 Change over Time:Working Diachronic Data 219
8 Bringing Everything Together:Ten Principles of Statistical Thinking,Meta-analysis and Effect Sizes 257
Final Remarks 283
References 285
Index 294
