English corpora under Japanese eyes

Mitsunori IMAI: Foreword Junsaku NAKAMURA, Nagayuki INOUE and Tomoji TABATA: Preface I. Overview of Corpus-Based Studies Stig JOHANSSON: Corpus Linguistics - past, present, future: A view from Oslo II. Corpus-Based Studies in Contemporary English Mitsumi UCHIDA and Tomohiro YANAGI: What is to be done about it? A Parallel Corpus Study of 'Copula and Infinitive' Constructions in English and French Mayumi NISHIBU: Definite Notional Subject in Existential There Constructions: A Quantitative Study Makoto SHIMIZU and Masaki MURATA: Patterns with Transitive Verb and Reflexive in English and their Counterparts in Japanese: A Bilingual Pattern Grammar Approach Makimi KIMURA: Magnate and Tycoon: A Case of Rivalry between Existing Vocabulary and Newer Loanwords as Seen in OED2 and BNC Satoko TAKAMI: A Corpus-Driven Identification of Distinctive Words: 'Tabloid Adjectives' and 'Broadsheet Adjectives' in the Bank of English III. Historical and Diachronic Studies of English Yoshiyuki NAKAO, Akiyuki JIMURA, and Masatsugu MATSUO: A Project for a Comprehensive Collation of the Hengwrt and Ellesmere Manuscripts of The Canterbury Tales: The General Prologue Ohkado MASAYUKI: On Verb Movement in Old English Subordinate Clauses Satoru TSUKAMOTO: Syntactic Chronology: Dating Text in the History of English IV. Corpus-Based Studies in English Literature Shin'ichiro ISHIKAWA: A Corpus-Based Approach to Basic Colour Terms in the Novels of D.H. Lawrence V. Corpus and English Language Taching Tomoko KANEKO: The Use of Past Tense Forms by Japanese Learners of English Kiyomi CHUJO: Measuring Vocabulary Levels of English Textbooks and Tests Using a BNC Lemmatised High Frequency Word List.