Since the completion of the project, two sub-corpora with material from the BNC have been released separately: the BNC Sampler (a general collection of one million written words, one million spoken) and the BNC
Sincethecompletionoftheproject,twosubcorporawithmaterialfromtheBNChavebeenreleasedseparately:(1)theBNCSampler(ageneralcollectionofonemillionwrittenwords,onemillionspoken).(2)theBNCBaby(fourone-millionwordsamplesfromfourdifferentgenres).WhatsortofcorpusistheBNC?Monolingual:ItdealswithmodernBritishEnglish,notother...
2.3Spoken...6 2.4Academic...6 2.5DesignoftheBritishNationalCorpus...6 3Basicstructure8 3.1Markupconventions...9 3.2Anexample...9 3.3Corpusandtextelements...