The 385+ million word Corpus of Contemporary American English (1990-2008+): Design, architecture, and linguistic insights

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 159-190

  Davies, Mark ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

American English; Corpus; Diachronic; Genres; Phrasal verbs; Relational databases

Indexed keywords

EID: 68549101775     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.14.2.02dav     Document Type: Review

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