4 Corpora cited in the chapter

British National Corpus (for more detailed information on the BNC please visit the website accompanying Smith and Seoane, Chapter 11 by Alexandra Miroshevskaya)

The link to the BNC

• http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/

For a helpful and readable general handbook see

• Aston, Guy and  Burnard, Lou 1998. The BNC handbook. Exploring the British National Corpus with SARA. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

For a practical instruction especially suitable for linguists, written by an expert on that field of linguistics see

• Hoffmann, Sebastian 2008. Corpus linguistics with BNCweb. A practical guide. Frankfurt a.M.: Lang.

The first chapter is available online and free of charge

• http://corpora.lancs.ac.uk/BNCweb/Hoffmann_et_al_sample.pdf

See also the web-based interface for BNC at

• http://bncweb.info/

Freiburg English Dialect Corpus (FRED)

Official website with a user’s guide

• http://www2.anglistik.uni-freiburg.de/institut/lskortmann/FRED/index.htm

For details on FRED itself go to

• http://www2.anglistik.uni-freiburg.de/institut/lskortmann/FRED/coverage.htm

International Corpus of English

Official website

• http://ice-corpora.net/ice/

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