ABSTRACT
Corpus Linguistics (CL), or Computer Corpus Linguistics (Leech 1992), has been one of the most interesting approaches to the study of linguistic phenomena to emerge in the latter part of the 20th century. After an initial period in which its aims were often misunderstood, especially from those with a Chomskyan orientation, CL enjoyed considerable development in the 1990s and continues to grow, both at the surface and in depth (Bunge 1968), in the second decade of the 21st century.
