Tony McEnery is Professor of English Language and Linguistics, Lancaster University. He has published widely in the area of corpus linguistics though within the area his major interests are currently the contrastive study of aspect, epistemic modality and corpus aided discourse analysis. Tony's previous books include Corpus Linguistics (with A. Wilson) and Corpus Annotation (with R. Garside & G. Leech).

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Tony McEnery
Dept of Linguistics,
Lancaster University,
Lancashire,
LA1 4YT,
United Kingdom

a.mcenery@lancaster.ac.uk

Richard Xiao is a research fellow in corpus linguistics. He is the author of Aspect in Mandarin Chinese: A Corpus-based Study (with Tony McEnery). Richard has published corpus-based language studies in Journal of Linguistics, Journal of English Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Literary and Linguistic Computing, Language and Literature, Languages in Contrast, English Studies and Journal of Universal Language.

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Ricahrd Xiao
Dept of Linguistics,
Lancaster University,
Lancashire,
LA1 4YT,
United Kingdom

z.xiao@lancaster.ac.uk

Yukio Tono is a professor at the School of Applied Linguistics at Meikai University, Tokyo. He has previously lectured at Tokyo Gakugei University, Keio University and Seikei University in Japan. Yukio has published widely in the area of corpus-based approaches to second language acquisition studies.

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Department of English,
Meikai University,
Tokyo,
Japan

tono@q05.itscom.net