Michael Hoey is Baines Professor of English language at the University of Liverpool, UK.  Michaela Mahlberg is Humboldt-Professor and Professor of Digital Humanities at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. 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.

"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 1. Lexical priming and literary creativity: Michael Hoey2. Grammatical creativity: a corpus perspective: Michael Hoey3. Parole-linguistics and the diachronic dimension of the discourse: Wolfgang Teubert 4. Natural and Human Rights, Work and Property in the Discourse of Catholic Social Doctrine: Wolfgang Teubert5. On texts, corpora and models of language: Michael Stubbs6. Quantitative data on multi-word sequences in English: the case of the word world: Michael Stubbs7. Lexical items in discourse: identifying local textual functions of sustainable development: Michaela Mahlberg8. Corpus stylistics: bridging the gap between linguistic and literary studies: Michaela MahlbergIndex

Michael Hoey is Baines Professor of English language at the University of Liverpool, UK.  Michaela Mahlberg is Humboldt-Professor and Professor of Digital Humanities at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. 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.

"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 1. Lexical priming and literary creativity: Michael Hoey2. Grammatical creativity: a corpus perspective: Michael Hoey3. Parole-linguistics and the diachronic dimension of the discourse: Wolfgang Teubert 4. Natural and Human Rights, Work and Property in the Discourse of Catholic Social Doctrine: Wolfgang Teubert5. On texts, corpora and models of language: Michael Stubbs6. Quantitative data on multi-word sequences in English: the case of the word world: Michael Stubbs7. Lexical items in discourse: identifying local textual functions of sustainable development: Michaela Mahlberg8. Corpus stylistics: bridging the gap between linguistic and literary studies: Michaela MahlbergIndex