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Late Modern English: Novel encounters
Edited by Merja Kytö and Erik Smitterberg
[Studies in Language Companion Series 214] 2020
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CED = A Corpus of English Dialogues 1560–1760. 2006. Compiled under the supervision of Merja Kytö (Uppsala University) and Jonathan Culpeper (Lancaster University). Available through the Oxford Text Archive. See <[URL]>
CEN = The Corpus of English Novels. Compiled by Hendrik De Smet. See <[URL]>
CLMET3.0 = The Corpus of Late Modern English Texts, Version 3.0 (CLMET3.0). Created by Hendrik De Smet, Hans-Jürgen Diller & Jukka Tyrkkö. See <[URL]>
COCA = The Corpus of Contemporary American English: 560 Million Words, 1990 – present. 2008–. Compiled by Mark Davies. Available online at <[URL]>
COHA = The Corpus of Historical American English: 400 Million Words, 1810–2009. 2010–. Compiled by Mark Davies. Available online at <[URL]>
DOEC = Dictionary of Old English Web Corpus. 2011. Antonette diPaolo Healey, John Price Wilkin & Xin Xiang (eds). Toronto: University of Toronto. See <[URL]>
ED = English Drama. 1996–2014. John Barnard et al. (eds). Chadwyck-Healey Ltd. (ProQuest Company). See <[URL]>
EEBO = Early English Books Online. 2017. Compiled by Mark Davies. Part of the SAMUELS project. Available online at <[URL]>
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Hansard = Hansard Corpus 1803–2005. 2015–. Marc Alexander & Mark Davies (comps.). Available online at <[URL]>
OBC = Old Bailey Corpus, Version 2.0. 2013. Compiled by Magnus Huber, Magnus Nissel & Karen Puga. See <[URL]>
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