> > I should read some literature on the philosophy or theory of
> > corpus linguistics for my thesies. However most publications
>
> There isn't any. Linguistics is about language. A corpus is a sample
> of language. You don't get theory about samples. Corpus linguistics
> might be a better way to do linguistics, but the theory is still going
> to be about language.
>
> ;-)
>
Good thing you included the smiley sign. There certainly is a theory about
sampling and thus a determination of what a proper sample is. That
includes proper samples of language which many reasonable people have
concluded are worth studying. They even consider it "linguistics."
Henry Kucera