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This book charts the emergence of a new view of language and the computer technology associated with it. .Over the last ten years, computers have been through several generations, and the computational analysis of language has rapidly developed, revealing unsuspected patterns of form and use which cannot be accommodated within a traditional descriptive system. These developments are outlined and are complemented by detailed discussion of the physical processes involved in corpus creation and the linguistic insights derived from corpus use. ..In addition to its substantial contribution to the description of the contemporary English language, the book provides an overview of this increasingly important area of applied linguistics. It will serve as an introduction to corpus linguistics and give a background for subsequent contributions in the series. ...