Based on work conducted by the Japan Association of English Corpus Studies.

State of the art report.

Includes bibliographical references.

Syntactic Boundaries and Prosodic Features in English / Atsuko Furuta Umesaki -- A Galaxy of Words: Structures Based upon Distributions of Verbs, Nouns and Adjectives in the LOB Corpus / Junsaku Nakamura -- Conjugational Patterns and Text Categories in the LOB Corpus / Takeshi Okada -- Distribution of Frequent Adjectives in the Wellington Corpus of Written New Zealand English / Shunji Yamazaki -- On Viewing Reflexives in the Bank of English: Their Distribution and Function / Teruhiko Fukaya -- Lexical Richness and Semantic Loading Capacity of Nouns / Toshihiko Kubota -- A Trap in Corpus Linguistics: The Gap between Corpus-based Analysis and Intuition-based Analysis / Hideshi Takaie -- From Participles to Conjunctions: A Parallel Corpus Study of Grammaticalization in English and French / Mitsumi Uchida -- Collocational Patterns of -ly Manner Adverbs in Dickens / Masahiro Hori -- Investigating Stylistic Variation in Dickens through Correspondence Analysis of Word-Class Distribution / Tomoji Tabata -- Degree Adverbs in the Corpus of Early English Correspondence Sampler / Hideo Nishimura -- Adverbial Positions and Verb Movement in Middle English and Early Modern English / Michio Hosaka -- Development of Any from Middle English to Early Modern English: A Study Using the Helsinki Corpus of English Texts / Yoko Iyeiri -- On the Absence of the Conjunction That in Late Middle English / Norihiko Otsu -- The Semantics of Chaucer’s Moot/Moste and Shal/Sholde: Conditional Elements and Degrees of Their Quantifiability / Yoshiyuki Nakao -- Syntactic Annotation and Text Classification: A Study Using the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English / Satoru Tsukamoto -- Problems with the Electronic OED2 as a Database of Linguistic Terms / Hideki Watanabe -- Communication Strategies of EFL Learners: A Corpus-based Approach / Kojiro Asao -- Collocational Knowledge of L2 Learners of English: A Case Study of Japanese Learners / Masatoshi Sugiura -- KWIC Concordance for Windows: Easy Access to Corpora / Satoru Tsukamoto.

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The existence of corpus-based linguistic research in Japan has until now mainly been hidden from the view of overseas researchers - partly by the language barrier, and partly by the continuing dominance of generative grammar in Japan. At last, this volume lifts the veil to reveal the current condition of corpus-based research in Japan. English Corpus Linguistics in Japan contains a collection of twenty papers written by Japanese linguists, reflecting the state of art in English corpus linguistics in Japan. The volume covers an impressively wide range, showcasing the diversity and creativity of corpus-based research in this country, from studies drawing on the ‘old faithful’ Brown and LOB Corpora as well as the more recent Frown, FLOB, the Bank of English and the British National Corpus to studies based on more specific historical, literary, spoken, and learner corpora; from investigations of major levels of language description, including prosody, lexis, morphology, syntax, and semantics to investigations of language variation; from explorations of single variables to those of multivariant dimensions; and from pedagogical applications to software applications. The papers are grouped into four sections: 1) Corpus-based studies of contemporary English, 2) Historical and diachronic studies of English, 3) English corpora and English language teaching, 4) Software for analyzing corpora. This volume will inspire still further corpus explorations in the future both in Japan and abroad.