Subject Guides: Language & Linguistics: Corpora

English-Language Corpora

Sketch Engine This link opens in a new window Click Institutional Login and choose BYU. Create and search text corpora in 100+ languages.
English Corpora This link opens in a new window Over 200 BILLION separate words (in context) from different registers and from varying discrete sources, including contemporary and historical American English, the World Wide Web, Wikipedia, Coronavirus, TV, movies, soap operas, the Supreme Court, TIME Magazine, early and contemporary British and Canadian Corpora, plus Google Books comparative n-grams.
International Corpus of Learner English This link opens in a new window ICLE is a computerized corpus of argumentative essays on different topics written by advanced learners of English (university students of English mainly in their second or third year). The ICLE project was launched in 1990 by Sylviane Granger, University of Louvain-la Neuve, Belgium, and in 2002 the corpus was released in CD-ROM format, accompanied by a handbook which describes its structure and the status of English in the countries of origin of the learners. The corpus is made up of a number of subcorpora representing the following language backgrounds: Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish. There is also a smaller comparable corpus of British and American undergraduate essays. The length of the essays varies between 500 and 1000 words. (as described by bo Akademi - Finland)

LDS General Conference Corpus This corpus contains nearly every talk given in General Conference of the LDS Church.

Foreign-Language Corpora

ABU: la Bibliothèque Universelle
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ABU is a corpus of literature, mainly French, searchable by author, text, or words

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Corpus de la litterature medievale This link opens in a new window La base de textes du Corpus de la litterature medievale est une base litteraire de plus de 800 oeuvres en langue d'oil des origines a la fin du XVe siecle, geree par le logiciel BABEL dedie aux analyses de contenu. Le Corpus de la litterature medievale se caracterise par sa coherence editoriale et ses possibilites d'acces au texte original jumelees aux fonctions de recherche.

Bookmarks for Corpus-Based Linguistics

Bookmarks for Corpus-Based LInguistics provide links to anything and everything to do with the use of language corpora.
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Linguistic Data Consortium

The Linguistic Data Consortium supports language-related education, research and technology development by creating and sharing linguistic resources: data, tools and standards.