摘要：As commonly recognized, the era of modern corpus linguistics is approaching
the half-century mark. During the past 50 years, we have witnessed a series of
important landmark events in this field, ranging from the early attempts at
mechanolinguistics by Juiland and Busa in the 1950s, to the pioneering work on
computerized corpora in the 1960s and 1970s, involving first written material in
terms of the Brown Corpus and the LOB Corpus, and later spoken material in
connection with the London-Lund Corpus; in the 1980s, we have experienced
the large-scale corpus projects of Cobuild and the Bank of English, and in the
1990s the British National Corpus (BNC) and the International Corpus of
English (ICE) (e.g. McEnery and Wilson 2001: 20 ff.).
