Corpus Linguistics on the Move ― Exploring and Understanding English Through Corpora

Corpus linguistics on the move: Exploring and understanding English through corpora comprises fourteen contributions covering key issues in English corpus linguistics, including corpus compilation and annotation, original perspectives from specialized corpora, and insightful discussions of various grammatical and pragmatic features.

Maria Jose Lopez-Couso, Ph.D. (1994), is Senior Lecturer at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Her main research interests include complementation, existentials, and parentheticals, on which she has published extensively. She is a member of the ICAME Executive Board. Belen Mendez-Naya, Ph.D. (1995), is Senior Lecturer at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Her main areas of research are complementation, intensifiers, parentheticals, and pragmatic markers. She is a member of the Editorial Board of Folia Linguistica (Mouton). Paloma Nunez-Pertejo, Ph.D. (2001), is Senior Lecturer at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. She has published mainly on the progressive, youth language, and intensification. She is a member of the Editorial Board of English Linguistics Research (Sciedu Press). Ignacio M. Palacios-Martinez, Ph.D. (1992), is Senior Lecturer at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and Director of SPERTUS (Spoken English Research Team at the University of Santiago). He has published extensively on quotatives, vague language, and negative polarity.