 Welcome to Corpus Basics. This unit introduces you to the central principles of corpus linguistics as a discipline and to the use of linguistic corpora. We will look at the basic properties of corpora and we will deal with the historical development of corpus linguistics. Furthermore, we will look at the central principles of annotation and we will provide some well-known examples of popular modern corpora. At the end of this unit, you will understand the main principles of corpus linguistics and you will be ready for more detailed aspects of using corpora. So stay tuned for further insights into corpus linguistics and see you soon.