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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Marshall
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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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