In Biber (1990), I analyse the stability of feature counts across texts from a register by comparing the mean frequency counts for 10-text subsamples taken from particular registers.

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In this widely acclaimed empirical study, Douglas Biber uses computational techniques to analyse the linguistic characteristics of twenty-three spoken and written genres, enabling identi-fication of the …

All linguistic features included in Biber (1988) were analyzed, as well as many additional grammatical features from the LGSWE (Biber et al. 1999). In addition, we carried out extensive analyses of …

In the present section, I use the analyses in Biber (1988, pp.77-78, 246-269) to address the first two of these problems. That study is based on a relatively large and wide-ranging corpus of English texts: …

A fully updated and expanded second edition of this ûagship work, which introduces methodological techniques to carry out analyses of text var-ieties, and provides descriptions of the most important …