Information and communication technology ICT has dramatically altered the worlds social and economic landscape and is now gaining momentum in the realm of language studies. Corpora and ICT in Language Studies attempts to signal and document this phenomenon by bringing together twentynine contributions authored by both seasoned researchers and newcomers to the field. The contributions range from more traditional corpusbased or corpusdriven studies to those incorporating ICT as an integral part of their methodology. The volume includes a selection of conference papers given at PALC 2005 the fifth conference in the biennial cycle of meetings organized by the Department of English Language at Ldz University as well as a number of invited papers. The papers are grouped in three parts corpora in empirical language studies cognitive linguistics and elearning.