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> I should read some literature on the philosophy or theory of
> corpus linguistics for my thesies. However most publications
> seems to concern merely on more practical or methodological
> aspects of corpus linguistics. Could anyone recommend me some
> books, articles or papers on philosophy of corpus linguistics?
You might have a look at the introduction of my thesis where I intend to
show how an analyzed language corpus can make the step from a competence
to a performance model of natural language. I also give an overview of
other (psycholinguistic and language-technological) arguments for using
corpora.
Rens Bod, 1995. Enriching Linguistics with Statistics: Performance Models
of Natural Language, ILLC Dissertation Series 1995-14, University of
Amsterdam
(ftp://ftp.fwi.uva.nl/pub/theory/illc/dissertations/DS-95-14.text.ps.gz).
-- Rens