About the Author
Michael Barlow received his PhD in Linguistics from Stanford University. He is currently Associate Professor in Applied Language Studies at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Dr. Barlow has written books and articles broadly based on usage-based approaches to language and his research relies on corpus analysis to understand the nature of grammatical patterning and the relation of that patterning to cognitive representations. He has created several text analysis programs including concordancers MonoConc and ParaConc and a collocation extraction program, Collocate. A recently developed program, WordSkew, is designed to apply corpus analysis techniques while at the same time taking note of the structure of texts.