本书通过广泛的案例和简明扼要的语言，深入浅出地介绍了语料库研究中的统计概念，以帮助读者建立稳固而扎实的统计分析思维基础，使读者能够自如地运用统计方法来解读语料库数据，从而更好地探索语言问题和语言规律。本书既可作为语料库语言学的入门读物，也可作为高阶研究者的参考书，为学术研究提供有力的支持。

List of Figures xviii
List of Tables xxii
About This Book xxv
Acknowledgements xxvii
1 Introduction:Statistics Meets Corpus Linguistics 1
2 Vocabulary:Frequency,Dispersion and Diversity 38
3 Semantics and Discourse:Collocations,Keywords and Reliability of Manual Coding 66
4 Lexico-grammar:From Simple Counts to Complex Models 102
5 Register Variation:Correlation,Clusters and Factors 139
6 Sociolinguistics and Stylistics:Individual and Social Variation 183
7 Change over Time:Working Diachronic Data 219
8 Bringing Everything Together:Ten Principles of Statistical Thinking,Meta-analysis and Effect Sizes 257
Final Remarks 283
References 285
Index 294