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语料库语言学的目标和方法 Introduction to Corpus Linguistics 1.1 What is a corpus? In the language sciences a corpus is a body of written text or transcribed speech which can serve as a basis for linguistic analysis and description. In many respects it is the use to which the body of textual material is put, rather than its design features, which define what a corpus is. A corpus constitutes an empirical basis not only for identifying the elements and structural patterns which make up the systems we use in a language, but also for mapping out our use of these systems. A corpus can be analyzed and com