Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles
available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Corpus
linguistics is the study of language as expressed in samples (corpora)
or "real world" text. This method represents a digestive approach to
deriving a set of abstract rules by which a natural language is governed
or else relates to another language. Originally done by hand, corpora
are now largely derived by an automated process. The corpus approach
runs counter to Noam Chomsky's view that real language is riddled with
performance-related errors, thus requiring careful analysis of small
speech samples obtained in a highly controlled laboratory setting.
