Once you've set up your access to CQP on the university server (that is the INLET corpus system), you'll have a selection of different corpora at your disposal. This list will introduce you to some of them that might be interesting to you. If you don't have access to CQP just yet, check out the INLET site to install the system on your account.

For more information on the INLET system, visit this site.

For more detailed information on each of these corpora, select the corpus on CQP, type info and press ENTER.

Size: 112,156,361 tokens

Text publication dates: 1960-1993 (split up into 3 periods)

Tagset: CLAWS-5

Cite as: BNC Consortium. 2007. The British National Corpus, version 3 (BNC XML Edition). Oxford: Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford. URL: http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/

Corpus documentation: http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/

Size: 4,644,834 tokens

Tagset: CLAWS-5

Corpus documentation: http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/corpus/baby/manual.pdf

Size: 40,340,760 tokens

Text publication dates: 1710-1920 (split up into 3 periods)

Tagset: PENN Corpora

Corpus documentation: https://perswww.kuleuven.be/~u0044428/clmet3_0.htm

Cite as: De Smet, Hendrik, Susanne Flach, Jukka Tyrkkö & Hans-Jügen Diller. 2015. The Corpus of Late Modern English (CLMET), version 3.1: Improved tokenization and linguistic annotation. KU Leuven, FU Berlin, U Tampere, RU Bochum.

Size: 1,137,466 tokens (approx. 1m words)

Text publication dates: 1961

Corpus documentation: https://varieng.helsinki.fi/CoRD/corpora/BROWN/index.html

Cite as: A Standard Corpus of Present-Day Edited American English, for use with Digital Computers (Brown). 1964, 1971, 1979. Compiled by W. N. Francis and H. Kučera. Brown University. Providence, Rhode Island.

Size: 1,180,152 (approx. 1m words)

Text publication dates: 1992

Corpus documentation: https://varieng.helsinki.fi/CoRD/corpora/FROWN/index.html

Cite as: The Freiburg-Brown Corpus (‘Frown’) (POS-tagged version) compiled by Christian Mair, Albert Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, and Geoffrey Leech, University of Lancaster

Size: 1,157,496 tokens (approx. 1m words)

Text publication dates: 1961

Corpus documentation: https://varieng.helsinki.fi/CoRD/corpora/LOB/index.html

Cite as: The LOB Corpus, POS-tagged version (1981–1986), compiled by Geoffrey Leech, Lancaster University, Stig Johansson, University of Oslo (project leaders), Roger Garside, Lancaster University, and Knut Hofland, University of Bergen (heads of computing).

Size: 1,165,747 tokens (approx. 1m words)

Text publication dates: 1991

Corpus documentation: https://varieng.helsinki.fi/CoRD/corpora/FLOB/index.html

Cite as: The Freiburg-LOB Corpus (‘F-LOB’) (POS-tagged version) compiled by Christian Mair, Albert Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, and Geoffrey Leech, University of Lancaster

Size: 2,518,276 tokens

Author's first languages: Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch (Netherlands), Dutch (Belgium), French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, etc.

Corpus documentation: https://uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ilc/cecl/icle.html

Cite as: Granger, Sylviane, Estelle Dagneaux & Fanny Meunier. 2002. International Corpus of Learner English (ICLE). Louvain: Presses Universitaires de Louvain.

Size: 542,341,719 tokens (440m words)

Text publication dates: 1990-2012

Tagset: CLAWS-7

Corpus documentation: http://corpus.byu.edu/coca

Cite as: Davies, Mark. 2008. The Corpus of Contemporary American English: 450 Million Words, 1990-2012. http://corpus.byu.edu/coca.

Size: 471,427,380 tokens (400m words)

Tagset: CLAWS-7

Corpus documentation: http://corpus.byu.edu/coha/

Cite as: Davies, Mark. 2010. The Corpus of Historical American English: 400 million words, 1810-2009. http://corpus.byu.edu/coha/.

Size: 1,354,926 tokens

Text publication dates: 1150-1500 (split up into 9 periods)

Tagset: PENN Corpora

Corpus documentation: http://www.ling.upenn.edu/hist-corpora/PPCME2-RELEASE-3/

Cite as: Anthony Kroch and Ann Taylor. 2000. The Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English (PPCME2). Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania. CD-ROM, second edition, (http://www.ling.upenn.edu/hist-corpora/).

Size: 1,968,483 tokens

Text publication dates: 1500-1710

Tagset: PENN Corpora

Corpus documentation: http://www.ling.upenn.edu/hist-corpora/PPCEME-RELEASE-2/

Cite as: Anthony Kroch, Beatrice Santorini, and Lauren Delfs. 2004. The Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Early Modern English (PPCEME). Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania. CD-ROM, first edition, (http://www.ling.upenn.edu/hist-corpora/).

Size: 1,095,044 tokens

Text publication dates: 1700-1914

Tagset: PENN Corpora

Corpus documentation: http://www.ling.upenn.edu/hist-corpora/PPCMBE-RELEASE-1/

Cite as: Anthony Kroch, Beatrice Santorini, and Lauren Delfs. 2010. The Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Modern British English (PPCMBE). Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania. CD-ROM, first edition. (http://www.ling.upenn.edu/hist-corpora/).

Size: 2,371,920 tokens

Text publication dates: 1350-1710 (split up into 5 periods)

Tagset: PENN Corpora

Corpus documentation: http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~lang22/PCEEC-manual/corpus_description/index.htm

Cite as: Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence, tagged version. 2006. Annotated by Arja Nurmi, Ann Taylor, Anthony Warner, Susan Pintzuk, and Terttu Nevalainen. Compiled by the CEEC Project Team. York: University of York and Helsinki: University of Helsinki. Distributed through the Oxford Text Archive.

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