”gives an excellent outline of the state of the art in English corpus linguistics… presents readers with a wealth of possible applications and uses of English computer corpora in the field of synchronic corpus linguistics…. It clearly shows what kinds of research results can be achieved by making use of corpus linguistic methods and it also outlines what insights can be gained from the study of the English language through the help of corpora. This volume also opens up many issues and research questions for the coming years.” in: ICAME Journal 32, April 2008