摘要：The present report will supplement those included in ICAME Journal 19 (1995),
20 (1996), 21 (1997), and 22 (1998) (for further information on corpus-work
done within the diachronic approach, see, eg Corpora Across the Centuries:
Proceedings of the First International Colloquium on English Diachronic Corpora,
eds Merja Kytö, Matti Rissanen and Susan Wright, Amsterdam and
Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1994, and Tracing the Trail of Time. Proceedings from the
Second Diachronic Corpora Workshop, eds Raymond Hickey, Merja Kytö, Ian
Lancashire and Matti Rissanen, Rodopi, 1997).
