Biber, Douglas, Susan Conrad and Geoffrey Leech: Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English, 2002. Pearson Education. (selections).
Kennedy, Graeme: An Introduction to Corpus Linguistics, 1998. Longman.
Partington, Alan: Patterns and Meanings: Using Corpora for English Language, 1998. John Benjamins. pp. 1-47, 65-88.
Supplementary reading:
Biber, Douglas, Susan Conrad and Randi Reppen: Corpus Linguistics: Investigating Language Structure and Use, 1998. Cambridge University Press.
McEnery, Tony and Andrew Wilson: Corpus Linguistics, 1996. Edinburgh University Press.
The course will also make reference to the following websites:
Tony McEnery and Andrew Wilson: Corpus Linguistics
Oslo Interactive English: hf.uio.no/ilos/OIE/
The Internet Grammar of English