Michael Hoey is Baines Professor of English language at the University of Liverpool. Michaela Mahlberg is Lecturer in English Language at the University of Liverpool. Michael Stubbs is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Trier, Germany. Wolfgang Teubert is Professor of Corpus Linguistics at the University of Birmingham. John Sinclair is President of the Tuscan Word Centre, Italy and Professor Emeritus of Modern English Language, University of Birmingham.

"An outstanding book, containing a range of original research ideas and insights that push cogently and systematically at the boundaries of the subject." - Professor Ronald Carter, School of English Studies, University of Nottingham, UK

• Introduction; John Sinclair; Chapter 1 - Lexical priming and literary creativity; Michael Hoey; Chapter 2 - Grammatical creativity: a corpus perspective; Michael Hoey; Chapter 3 - Parole-linguistics and the diachronic dimension of the discourse; Wolfgang Teubert; Chapter 4 - Natural and Human Rights, Work and Property in the Discourse of Catholic Social Doctrine; Wolfgang Teubert; Chapter 5 - On texts, corpora and models of language; Michael Stubbs; Chapter 6 - Quantitative data on mulit-word sequences in English: the case of the word world; Michael Stubbs; Chapter 7 - Lexical items in discourse: identifying local textual functions of sustainable development; Michaela Mahlberg; Chapter 8 - Corpus stylistics: bridging the gap between linguistic and literary studies; Michaela Mahlberg.

Michael Hoey is Baines Professor of English language at the University of Liverpool. Michaela Mahlberg is Lecturer in English Language at the University of Liverpool. Michael Stubbs is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Trier, Germany. Wolfgang Teubert is Professor of Corpus Linguistics at the University of Birmingham. John Sinclair is President of the Tuscan Word Centre, Italy and Professor Emeritus of Modern English Language, University of Birmingham.

"An outstanding book, containing a range of original research ideas and insights that push cogently and systematically at the boundaries of the subject." - Professor Ronald Carter, School of English Studies, University of Nottingham, UK

• Introduction; John Sinclair; Chapter 1 - Lexical priming and literary creativity; Michael Hoey; Chapter 2 - Grammatical creativity: a corpus perspective; Michael Hoey; Chapter 3 - Parole-linguistics and the diachronic dimension of the discourse; Wolfgang Teubert; Chapter 4 - Natural and Human Rights, Work and Property in the Discourse of Catholic Social Doctrine; Wolfgang Teubert; Chapter 5 - On texts, corpora and models of language; Michael Stubbs; Chapter 6 - Quantitative data on mulit-word sequences in English: the case of the word world; Michael Stubbs; Chapter 7 - Lexical items in discourse: identifying local textual functions of sustainable development; Michaela Mahlberg; Chapter 8 - Corpus stylistics: bridging the gap between linguistic and literary studies; Michaela Mahlberg.