xiv List of AbbreviationsxivCorpora and Text Collections
For further information, see References and Appendix.
AA Accessible archives
ARCHER A representative corpus of historical English registers
BYU- EEBO BYU- EEBO 400 million words, 1470s– 1690s (Based on Early
English Books Online from Chadwyck- Healey)
BYU- BNC BYU- BNC (Based on the British national corpus from Oxford
University Press)
CED A corpus of English dialogues 1560– 1760
CEECS Corpus of early English correspondence sampler (1418– 1680)
CEN The corpus of English novels
CLMET3.0 The corpus of Late Modern English texts, version 3.
CMEP&V Corpus of Middle English prose and verse
COCA The corpus of contemporary American English: 520 million
words, 1990– 2015
COHA The corpus of historical American English: 400 million words,
1810– 2009
DOEC Dictionary of Old English web corpus
ECF Eighteenth- century fiction
ED English drama
EEBO Early English books online
EEPF Early English prose fiction
HC Helsinki corpus of English texts
Lampeter The Lampeter corpus of Early Modern English tracts
OBPO The Old Bailey proceedings online, 1674– 1913
SOAP Corpus of American soap operas, 100 million words,
2001– 2012
TIME TIME magazine corpus: 100 million words, 1920s– 2000s
UofV Modern English collection. University of Virginia Electronic
Text Centernewgenprepdf