Where Do I Find Corpora?
- British National Corpus"The British National Corpus (BNC) is a 100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent a wide cross-section of British English from the later part of the 20th century, both spoken and written. "
- CoRD: Corpus Resource DatabaseOpen access repository of English language corpora.
- CorporaCorpora and corpus-based resources created and compiled by Mark Davies, Professor of Linguistics at Brigham Young University.
- Corpus of Contemporary American English (CoCA)"The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) is the only large and "representative" corpus of American English."
- Corpus of Historical American English (CoHA)"The Corpus of Historical American English (COHA) is the largest structured corpus of historical English."
- CQPWeb: Corpus Query ProcessorVarious English and other language corpora, large collection of news. Free login required.
- Google Books Ngram ViewerA graph showing how entered phrases have occurred in a corpus of books over selected years.
- Oxford Text ArchiveRepository of full-text literary and linguistic resources in over 25 languages.
- Scottish Corpus of Text and Speech"The Scottish Corpora project has created large electronic corpora of written and spoken texts for the languages of Scotland."
Additional Corpus Analysis Resources
Corpus Linguistics and the Description of English by
The second edition of this successful text provides an ideal introduction for university students of English at the intermediate level. Students planning papers, dissertations or theses will find the book a particularly valuable guide. After introducing corpora and the rationale and basic methodology of corpus linguistics, the authors present a number of recent case studies providing new insights into vocabulary, collocations, phraseology, metaphor and metonymy, syntactic structures, male and female language, and language change. A final chapter shows how the web and social media can be used as a source for linguistic investigations and contains information on how to compile your own corpus. Each chapter includes study questions, exercises and updated suggestions for further reading.
ISBN: 1474421709Publication Date: 2018-08-23
- Corpus linguistics : A guide to the methodology
"This book attempts to frame corpus linguistics systematically as a variant of the observational method. "
Corpus Analysis Tools
- Additional Corpus Tools By Laurence AnthonyMultiple Corpus Analysis Tools
- AntConcFree concordance software used for text analysis and linguistic research, especially in corpus analysis.
- AntCorGen"A freeware discipline-specific corpus creation tool."
- AntFileConverter"A freeware tool to convert PDF and Word (DOCX) files into plain text for use in corpus tools like AntConc."
- Corpus-Analysis.comList of tools used in corpus analysis.
- Regular Expressions Tutorial"A regular expression, or regex for short, is a pattern describing a certain amount of text." These can be useful when creating or searching corpus data.