Tony McEnery and Andrew Wilson introduce us to the things empirical linguists
can do with dataprocessing in Corpus Linguistics (Edinburgh University Press,
£14.95, ISBN 0 7486 0482 0). More ways of marking up text than a
subeditor’s nightmare.
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