Wolfgang Teubert is Professor of Corpus Linguistics at the University of Birmingham. Anna Cermakova is at the Centre for Corpus Linguistics, University of Birmingham.

"This book without a doubt is appealing for everybody interested in lexicography who wants to know how corpus linguistic can be used in lexicology and who ideally has some background knowledge about corpus linguistics."--Randall Eggert, The Linguist List, September 17, 2007

• 1. Language and Corpus Linguistics - Wolfgang Teubert; 1.1 Are all Languages the Same?; 1.2 Standard Linguistics and Word Meaning; 1.3 Words, Idioms and Collocations; 1.4 Corpus Linguistics: A Different Look at Language; 1.5 A Brief History of Corpus Linguistics; 2. Directions in Corpus Linguistics - Wolfgang Teubert and Anna Cermakova; 2.1 Language and Representativeness; 2.2 Corpus Typology; 2.3 Meaning in Discourse; 2.4 Meaning as Usage and Paraphrase; 2.5 Globalisation; 2.6 What Corpus Linguistics can tell us about Meaning; 2.7 Collocations, Translation and Parallel Corpora; 2.8 Conclusion: From Meaning to Understanding Glossary; Suggestions for Further Reading.

Wolfgang Teubert is Professor of Corpus Linguistics at the University of Birmingham. Anna Cermakova is at the Centre for Corpus Linguistics, University of Birmingham.

"This book without a doubt is appealing for everybody interested in lexicography who wants to know how corpus linguistic can be used in lexicology and who ideally has some background knowledge about corpus linguistics."--Randall Eggert, The Linguist List, September 17, 2007

• 1. Language and Corpus Linguistics - Wolfgang Teubert; 1.1 Are all Languages the Same?; 1.2 Standard Linguistics and Word Meaning; 1.3 Words, Idioms and Collocations; 1.4 Corpus Linguistics: A Different Look at Language; 1.5 A Brief History of Corpus Linguistics; 2. Directions in Corpus Linguistics - Wolfgang Teubert and Anna Cermakova; 2.1 Language and Representativeness; 2.2 Corpus Typology; 2.3 Meaning in Discourse; 2.4 Meaning as Usage and Paraphrase; 2.5 Globalisation; 2.6 What Corpus Linguistics can tell us about Meaning; 2.7 Collocations, Translation and Parallel Corpora; 2.8 Conclusion: From Meaning to Understanding Glossary; Suggestions for Further Reading.