TY - JOUR N2 - The paper aims at presenting selected notes and remarks on corpora and corpus linguistics. It starts with a brief history of corpus linguistics. It occurs that although corpus linguistics is a relatively young branch of linguistics, it managed to revolutionise all branches of linguistics. Afterwards, the notion of corpus anddifferent types of corpora are discussed . In general, we can say that, on the one hand, there are annotated and unannotated corpora, and, on the other, diachronic and synchronic ones. In the following sections of the article the notions of corpus composition, annotation, size and representativeness are discussed, and towards the end of the paper a list of the advantages of corpus linguistics is presented and some further conclusions drawn. L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/89151/mainfile.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/89151 PY - 2013 EP - 144 A1 - Kida, Ireneusz PB - Polska Akademia Nauk • Oddział w Katowicach VL - vol. 34 DA - 2013 T1 - Introduction to corpus linguistics SP - 133 UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/89151 T2 - LINGUISTICA SILESIANA ER -