STOP throwing away your money for BNC...

[xiaoz]

If you do not want to throw away your money for....

Samples (about 2 million words) from the British National Corpus: both written and spoken

The Brown Corpus

and many others - native, learner...

Go to http://www.lextutor.ca/concordancers/concord_e.html


If you have your own corpus data but don't have a concordancer, then...

Go to http://www.lextutor.ca/concordancers/text_concord/

you can Browse and upload large files from your machines.


For the whole BNC, try Mark Davies VIEW:

http://view.byu.edu/

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[xujiajin]

The web concordancer is COOOOL. But I did not find the descriptions of the corpora listed.

[xiaoz]

There is a list of corpora in the pull-down menu...

[patricx]

and i tested it with "backlash" on the Online Concordancer (v.4)
, but found only one example. what's wrong?

[xiaoz]

Sorry, that site only provides 2 million words of BNC samples.

Use the VIEW site above to access the whole BNC.

以下是引用 patricx 在 2005-7-31 8:14:10 的发言：
and i tested it with "backlash" on the Online Concordancer (v.4)
, but found only one example. what's wrong?

[patricx]

thanks,Richard! i have found 264examples of the "backlash"
huge!!!

[xujiajin]

以下是引用 xiaoz 在 2005-7-31 1:31:51 的发言：
There is a list of corpora in the pull-down menu...


Yes. Names of the corpora are listed but not the description of, say, the size, sampling strategies, etc.

[dzhigner]

JUST SOME REMADE RAW CORPORA .... NO DESCRIPTION ... I HAVE HACKED INTO THE CORPORA STORAGE, DOWNLOADED THEM ALL, AND TOTALLY CHECKED THEM OUT.

[xujiajin]

Go to http://www.corpus4u.com/forum_view.asp?forum_id=69&view_id=707
for more free English corpora.