Abbreviations

AD

American Drama

ARCHER

A Representative Corpus of Historical English Registers

BNC

British National Corpus

DOEC

The Dictionary of Old English Corpus in Electronic Form

EAF        

Early American Fiction

ECF        

Eighteenth-Century Fiction

ECCO

Eighteenth Century Collections Online

EEBO        

Early English Books Online

EEPF        

Early English Prose Fiction

EPD

English Prose Drama

FLOB        

Freiburg Lancaster-Oslo/Bergen Corpus

HC

The Helsinki Corpus of English Texts

KWIC        

Key word in context

LOB        

Lancaster-Oslo/Bergen Corpus

NCF

Nineteenth-Century Fiction

OED

Oxford English Dictionary

OCP        

Oxford Concordance Program

OTA

The University of Oxford Text Archive

POS

Part-of-speech

PPCMBE

Penn Parsed Corpus of Modern British English

PPCME2

Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English

PPCEME

Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Early Modern English