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Appendix: Corpora and Text Collections

Corpus or text

collection Dates

Word count or size

(where available)

British
DOEC Dictionary of Old
English web corpus

OE period > 3 million words

HC Helsinki corpus of
English texts

c730– 1710 1,52,800

CMEP&V Corpus of Middle
English prose and
verse

ME period 62 texts

ED English drama late 13th– early 20th c. 3,900 plays (verse and
prose)
CEECS Corpus of early
English
correspondence
sampler

1418– 1680 c450,000 words

EEBO Early English books
online

1473– 1700 > 125,000 texts

BYU- EEBO Early English books
online – selection

1400s– 1700s 400 million words

EEPF Early English prose
fi ction

1500– 1700 200 texts

CED A corpus of English
dialogues

1560– 1760 1,183,690 words

Lampeter Lampeter corpus
of Early Modern
English tracts

1640– 1740 1,193,385 words

ARCHER A representative
corpus of historical
English registers
3.2 – British
section

1650– 1999 c2 million words

OBPO Old Bailey
proceedings online

1674– 1913 197,000 trials
c52,000,000 words
ECF Eighteenth- century
fi ction

1700– 1780 96 complete texts