Broadening the spectrum of corpus linguistics : new approaches to variability and change This volume presents a snapshot of the current state of the art of research in English corpus linguistics. It contains selected papers from the 40th ICAME conference in 2019 and features contributions from experts in synchronic diachronic and contrastive linguistics as well as sociolinguistics phonetics discourse analysis and learner language. The volume showcases the particular strengths of research in the ICAME tradition. The papers in this volume offer new insights from the reanalysis of new data types methodological refinements and advancements of quantitative analysis and from taking new perspectives on ongoing debates in their respective fields