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英语用法调查是由英国学者,伦敦大学教授Dr.Randolph Quirk于1959年创立,这是欧洲从事这种类型研究的第一个研究中心。对该研究作出杰出贡献的“四巨头”分别是Quirk、Greenbaum、Svartvik和Leech。百万单词调查语料库已经完成,它收集了英国英语从1955年到1985年间书面语和口头语的例子,包含200篇短文,每篇短文5000单词。语料库对21世纪语言学研究和英语教学产生了巨大影响。
The English Usage Survey was founded in 1959 by British scholar Dr.Randolph Quirk, a University of London professor and is the first research center in Europe to do this type of research. The “Big Four” who made outstanding contributions to this research are Quirk, Greenbaum, Svartvik and Leech. The one million word survey corpus has been completed, collecting examples of written and spoken English in British English from 1955 to 1985, containing 200 essays, each containing 5,000 words. Corpus has a tremendous impact on linguistic research and English teaching in the 21st century.