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Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics
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[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 243] 2014
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MED
= Middle English Dictionary 2001University of Michigan. Online: [URL] .
OBC = Old Bailey Corpus
The speech-tagged and sociobiographically annotated version (0.5, June 2011) prepared under the supervision of Magnus Huber at the University of Giessen; based on the Proceedings of the Old Bailey, see [URL] .
OED
= Oxford English Dictionary , 3rd edition in progress 1989– Oxford: Oxford University Press. Online: [URL] .
WordSmith Tools (version 5.0)
2010 PC software by Mike Scott. Lexical Analysis Software and Oxford University Press.
Zurich English Newspaper Corpus (version 1.0)
2004 Compiled by Udo Fries, Hans Martin Lehmann, Beni Ruef, Peter Schneider, Patrick Studer, Caren auf dem Keller, Beat Nietlispach, Sandra Engler, Sabine Hensel and Franziska Zeller. University of Zurich. More information: [URL] .

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