The paper explains functions and available methods that can be used on the basis of the IMS Corpus Workbench and the CQP.
The main emphasis of the analysis is on methods, which can be used in the CQP query language.
It is shown how complex and mighty can be a query language and how vast is the collection of the available corpora.
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.
A significant part is concentrated on a particular usage of words sequence inquiries.
The methods in the query language give access to statistical results such distribution how frequent a word is in different section of the corpus.
Furthermore there are demonstrated statistical facilities of collocations and concordance screens.