For McEnery and Wilson's book, you can also find a lot of it and
supplementary material on-line at:
http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/monkey/ihe/linguistics/contents.htm
It's got a reasonable little bit on history there.
Take care and happy hunting,
Gordon
-- Gordon Cain, Teacher of ESOL TAFE International Education Centre, Liverpool Sydney, Australia gpcain@rivernet.com.au
Tony Berber Sardinha wrote: > > Hi > > The following might be useful sources: . . . > McEnery, T., & Wilson, A. (1996). *Corpus Linguistics*. > Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. > > cheers > tony. > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------ > Dr Tony Berber Sardinha > Catholic University of Sao Paulo, Brazil . . .
> > Dear all, > > > > Where can I obain information on the history of corpora > either for dictionary-making or for lingustic pursuit? > > > > Thanks. > > > > Gao Yongwei > > Fudan University, > > Shanghai, China