John D. Ramer* Scholars and judges have heralded corpus linguistics—the study of language through collections of spoken or written texts—as a novel tool for statutory interpretation that will help provide an answer in the occasionally ambiguous search for “ordinary meaning” using dictionaries. In the spring of 2016, the Michigan Supreme Court became the first to … Continue reading Corpus Linguistics: Misfire or More Ammo for the Ordinary-Meaning Canon?