Contents -- Foreword -- Editor's preface -- Note on language corpora and software -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction: The relevance of corpora to German studies -- Corpus analysis in the service of literary criticism: Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften as a model case -- When Ost meets West: a corpus-based study of binomial and other expressions before and during German unification -- German be- verbs revisited: using corpus evidence to investigate valency -- A corpus-based study of German accusative/dative prepositions -- Translators at play: exploitations of collocational norms in German-English translation -- 'Die schöne Geschichte': a corpus-based analysis of Thomas Mann's Joseph und seine Brüder -- Towards a corpus-based comparison of two journals in the field of business and management German -- The ASTCOVEA German Grammar in conText Project -- An electronic corpus of Early New High German -- Rights and obligations in legal contracts: corpus evidence -- Inflected and periphrastic subjunctive verb forms in German newspaper texts of the 1960s and 1990s -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.