Investigating English with Corpora. Studies in Honour of Maria Teresa Prat

The first and foremost reason for compiling this volume is to honour the long and brilliant career of our colleague Maria Teresa Prat, Full Professor of Lingua Inglese at the Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere of the University of Turin. Investigating English with Corpora has been chosen as the title and the unifying theme of this Festschrift to focus on a field of research - corpus linguistics - in which she has been involved, as testified by the volume on learner corpora published in 2004 and by more recent articles about the use of corpora as a resource for teachers and students. The contributors to the volume are friends and colleagues from the University of Turin and from other Italian universities who kindly accepted to write about aspects of their ongoing research related to the principles and methodology of corpus linguistics. Thus, this volume also offers an interesting snapshot of research areas and topics being investigated with the support of corpus data at the time of writing.