Jesse Egbert is Assistant Professor of Linguistics and English Language at Brigham Young University. His research focuses on register variation and methodological issues in corpus linguistics. His research has been published in journals such as Corpora, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, and Journal of English Linguistics.Paul Baker is Professor of English Language at Lancaster University. His research involves applications of corpus linguistics and his recent books include Using Corpora to Analyze Gender (2014), Discourse Analysis and Media Attitudes (2013) and Sociolinguistics and Corpus Linguistics (2010). He is the commissioning editor of the journal Corpora.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Triangulating text segmentation methods with diverse analytical approaches to analyzing text structureChapter 3 Working at the interface of hydrology and corpus linguistics: using corpora to identify droughts in nineteenth-century BritainChapter 4 Analysing representations of obesity in the Daily Mail via corpus and down-sampling methodsChapter 5 Connecting corpus linguistics and assessmentChapter 6 Examining vocabulary acquisition through word associations: triangulating the psycholinguistic and corpus-based approachesChapter 7 If olive oil is made of olives, then what’s baby oil made of? The shifting semantics of Noun+Noun sequences in American EnglishChapter 8 Corpus Linguistics and Event-Related PotentialsChapter 9 Priming of syntactic alternations by learners of English: an analysis of sentence-completion and collostructional resultsChapter 10 Usage-based theories of Construction Grammar: Triangulating Corpus Linguistics and PsycholinguisticsChapter 11 Synthesis and Conclusion

Jesse Egbert is Assistant Professor of Linguistics and English Language at Brigham Young University. His research focuses on register variation and methodological issues in corpus linguistics. His research has been published in journals such as Corpora, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, and Journal of English Linguistics.Paul Baker is Professor of English Language at Lancaster University. His research involves applications of corpus linguistics and his recent books include Using Corpora to Analyze Gender (2014), Discourse Analysis and Media Attitudes (2013) and Sociolinguistics and Corpus Linguistics (2010). He is the commissioning editor of the journal Corpora.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Triangulating text segmentation methods with diverse analytical approaches to analyzing text structureChapter 3 Working at the interface of hydrology and corpus linguistics: using corpora to identify droughts in nineteenth-century BritainChapter 4 Analysing representations of obesity in the Daily Mail via corpus and down-sampling methodsChapter 5 Connecting corpus linguistics and assessmentChapter 6 Examining vocabulary acquisition through word associations: triangulating the psycholinguistic and corpus-based approachesChapter 7 If olive oil is made of olives, then what’s baby oil made of? The shifting semantics of Noun+Noun sequences in American EnglishChapter 8 Corpus Linguistics and Event-Related PotentialsChapter 9 Priming of syntactic alternations by learners of English: an analysis of sentence-completion and collostructional resultsChapter 10 Usage-based theories of Construction Grammar: Triangulating Corpus Linguistics and PsycholinguisticsChapter 11 Synthesis and Conclusion

Jesse Egbert is Assistant Professor of Linguistics and English Language at Brigham Young University. His research focuses on register variation and methodological issues in corpus linguistics. His research has been published in journals such as Corpora, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, and Journal of English Linguistics.Paul Baker is Professor of English Language at Lancaster University. His research involves applications of corpus linguistics and his recent books include Using Corpora to Analyze Gender (2014), Discourse Analysis and Media Attitudes (2013) and Sociolinguistics and Corpus Linguistics (2010). He is the commissioning editor of the journal Corpora.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Triangulating text segmentation methods with diverse analytical approaches to analyzing text structureChapter 3 Working at the interface of hydrology and corpus linguistics: using corpora to identify droughts in nineteenth-century BritainChapter 4 Analysing representations of obesity in the Daily Mail via corpus and down-sampling methodsChapter 5 Connecting corpus linguistics and assessmentChapter 6 Examining vocabulary acquisition through word associations: triangulating the psycholinguistic and corpus-based approachesChapter 7 If olive oil is made of olives, then what’s baby oil made of? The shifting semantics of Noun+Noun sequences in American EnglishChapter 8 Corpus Linguistics and Event-Related PotentialsChapter 9 Priming of syntactic alternations by learners of English: an analysis of sentence-completion and collostructional resultsChapter 10 Usage-based theories of Construction Grammar: Triangulating Corpus Linguistics and PsycholinguisticsChapter 11 Synthesis and Conclusion