Herb,
The article I referred to notes that many of those problems you refer to have been worked out.
Marshall
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The Google corpus is indeed gigantic, but it is riddled with problems, especially with dating of texts and also with OCS problems. There has been some discussion of this on the American Dialect Society list.
Herb
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Scott,
You might be interested in the January 7th CHRONICLE REVIEW that features two articles on statistical analyses of corpora. While the articles focus mainly on literary analysis through the use of statistical data analysis, there is mention of the gigantic Google corpus: What is available now and what will be available soon.
One interesting side note. The analyses employed also examined the historical process of the shifting from strong verb declension to weak
verb declension in certain verbs..
Much of one of the articles is a summary of a December article in SCIENCE magazine.
Marshall
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Scott -
Below are a couple of additional links to "pages of links" to additional corpora (but the Davies/BYU ones that Herb mentioned would definitely be the place to start - I find myself using them constantly every time I teach grammar or English linguistics courses). The first is from a course site set up by George Dillon at the University of Washington. The second is to the Oxford Text Archive, which includes a lot of non-English texts and corpora as well, but has a number of historical English corpora. A lot are free, and the ones listed as 'restricted' are usually freely usable in a scholarly or educational context - there's a web form you can fill out and email to the OTA folks to ask for permission. --- Bill Spruiell
http://courses.washington.edu/englhtml/engl560/corplingresources.htm
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/index-id.html
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