This freedom resulted in a high level of diversity in the corpus for situational parameters such asrecording locationandactivity type, each of which was captured in the corpus metadata. Focussing on these parameters, this article provides evidence for functional variation among the texts in the ...
BritishNationalCorpus(XMLEdition)athttp://.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/XMLedition/URG/.TheBNCSamplerconsistsoftwocollectionsofwrittenandspokenmaterialofaboutonemillionwordseach,originallycompiledtomirrorthecompositionofthefullBNCasfaraspossible.TheBNCSamplerwasinitiallyusedforataggingenhancementprojectatLancasterUniversity.It...