Introduction -- Computer corpora in English language research -- Probabilistic grammatical analysis -- An analysis of probabilistic grammatical tagging methods -- Running a grammar factory: The production of syntactically analysed corpora or "treebanks" -- Probabilistic parsing in the COMMUNAL project -- Syntax -- On the exploration of corpus data by means of problem-oriented tagging: Postmodifying clauses in the English noun phrase -- Quantitative or qualitative corpus analysis? Infinitival complement clauses in the Survey of English Usage corpus -- Lexis -- Automatic parsing meets the wall -- Polysemy and vagueness of meaning descriptions in the Longman dictionary of contemporary English -- Speech -- Amplifier collocations in spoken English -- Prosodic labelling: The problem of tone group boundaries -- A study of up-arrows in the Lancaster/IBM Spoken English Corpus -- Regional/social variation -- Will and shall in Australian English -- The grammatical subject in educated and dialectal English: Comparing the London-Lund Corpus and the Helsinki Corpus of Modern English Dialects -- The Kolhapur Corpus of Indian English - intravarietal description and/or intervarietal comparison -- Specialised corpora -- The compilation of a Danish-English-French corpus in contract law -- Swedish TEFL meets reality -- Software -- Doing corpus work with PC Beta -- or, how to be your own computational linguist -- Concordance programs for personal computers -- Corpora and dictionaries in multiline records: A Unix/Awk approach to home-made text retrieval -- Reference section -- A survey of English machine-readable corpora -- A bibliography of publications relating to English computer corpora -- Index.