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Linguistics: Data & Corpora

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Linguistics Data & Corpora

About: a faith-based nonprofit organization committed to serving language communities worldwide as they build capacity for sustainable language development.

Instructions: search for your topic, then use the filters to select "work type" to get data sets.

Handbooks and Guides

Doing Corpus Linguistics

Doing Corpus Linguistics

A practical step-by-step introduction to corpus linguistics.

Practical Corpus Linguistics

Practical Corpus Linguistics

Provides a practical and student-friendly guide to corpus linguistics that explains the nature of electronic data and how it can be collected and analyzed.

The Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics

The Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics

Surveys the breadth of corpus-based linguistic research on English, including chapters on collocations, phraseology, grammatical variation, historical change, and the description of registers and dialects.

The World Atlas of Language Structures

The World Atlas of Language Structures

The World Atlas of Language Structures is a book and CD combination displaying the structural properties of the world's languages.