ABSTRACT
When I looked into the present state of corpus linguistics, I became a little reluctant to talk about this title. It is an exciting subject at present – arguably the most interesting and fastest-moving area in all linguistics – and personally I am very pleased to be working in the field; for the first 30 years that I spent working in corpus linguistics, hardly anyone noticed, and it is particularly pleasant to have so many colleagues with similar interests pursuing such a variety of research topics.
