Announcements

For linguists who work with empirical data, linguistic corpora are a valuable resource in teaching and research: They provide authentic language data on different topics and text types, which can be enriched with linguistic annotations on various levels and allow for linguistic phenomena to be queried and uncovered.

However, using corpora is not trivial. Familiarizing oneself with the specific query syntax of different corpus tools and critically interpreting results often presents a challenge, and there is a lack of instructional materials suitable for users with little or no prior knowledge. In an effort to close this gap, we invite contributions on the following topics for this special issue: