The paper explains functions and available methods that can be used on the basis of the IMS Corpus Workbench.
The main emphasis of the analysis is on methods, which can be used in a query language.
It is shown how complex and mighty a query language can be and how vast the collection of the available corpora is.
In the analysis there are distinguished different layers of specific corpora, which include the following levels of annotation: POS-tagging, lemma annotation or semantic tags.
Each of the levels was elaborate separately with regard to its specific structure and syntax.
The examples show a peculiarity of the syntactical structure of the particular layer.
Moreover there are presented variety of further possibilities of information with standard and restricted query search or usage of wildcards.
Additionally, a significant part demonstrates a particular usage of words sequence inquiries.