Corpora

Sara Laviosa
University of Bari
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In modern linguistics a corpus is a collection of authentic texts held in electronic form and assembled according to specific design criteria. These principles determine the physiognomy of a particular corpus type. Corpora are classified according to six sets of contrastive parameters as outlined below.

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