For a more detailed (and more critical) review of Biber's book than the
one by Kilgariff given above, see the book review by Bengt Altenberg in
_Studia Linguistica_ 43 (2), pp.167-174. (1989).
Also, I'm currently doing PhD research which essentially is an attempt
to replicate Biber's (1988) work, but using a few additional linguistic
features, and basing it on a more contemporary corpus of English (the
BNC), a wider range of texts, and a more accurate tagset.
David Lee.
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Dept of Linguistics * "...given time, you may come to *
Lancaster University * realise that having is not nearly *
Lancaster LA1 4YT * so satisfying a thing as wanting." *
England, UK. * *
* --- Mr Spock *
Email: D.Lee@lancaster.ac.uk ****************************************
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