Electronic corpora
BNC British National Corpus (1995). Version 1.0. BNC Consortium/Oxford University Computing Services. (100,000,000 words)
d91-00, 02, 04–05 Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph on CD-ROM (1991–2000), (2002), (2004–5). Chadwyck-Healey/ProQuest. (478,837,273 words)
D92-95 Detroit Free Press on CD-ROM (1992–1995). Knight Ridder Information Inc. (102,989,512 words)
EAF Early American Fiction (2000). Chadwyck-Healey. (34,634,666 words)
EAF1 First part of EAF containing only those authors born in the eighteenth century (* 1744-*1799). (15,891,451 words)
EAF2 Second part of the EAF containing only those authors born in the nineteenth century (*1801-*1827). (18,743,215 words)
ECF Eighteenth-Century Fiction (1996). Chadwyck-Healey. (9,702,696 words, omitting duplicates)
EEPF Early English Prose Fiction (1997-2000). Chadwyck-Healey. In association with the Salzburg Centre for Research on the English Novel SCREEN. (9,562,865 words)![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
EPD English Prose Drama (1996-1997). Chadwyck-Healey. (26,454,639 words)
ETC Early Twentieth Century Corpus – a selection of British and American writings by authors born between 1870 and 1894. Source: Project Gutenberg. Compiled in the Research Project 'Determinants of Grammatical Variation in English', University of Paderborn (16,351,681 words)
ETC/A American writings in the ETC. (11,550,273 words)
ETC/B British writings in the ETC. (4,801,408 words)
g90-05 Guardian (including The Observer 1994–2005) on CD-ROM (1990–2005). Chadwyck-Healey/ProQuest. (645,817,821 words)
i93-94, 02–05 Independent and Independent on Sunday on CD-ROM (1993–94), (2002–5). ProQuest. (242,608,117 words)
L92-95 Los Angeles Times on CD-ROM (1992–5) Knight Ridder Information Inc. (320,016,164 words)
L96-99 Los Angeles Times (1996–9) (courtesy of The Los Angeles Times Editorial Library). (275,506,490 words)
LNC Late-Nineteenth-Century Corpus – a selection of British and American writings (complementary to the EAF and NCF) by authors born between 1830 and 1869. Source: Project Gutenberg. Compiled in the Research Project 'Determinants of Grammatical Variation in English', University of Paderborn. (47,677,728 words)
LNC/A American writings in the LNC. (26,859,926 words)
LNC/B British writings in the LNC. (20,817,802 words)
m93-00 Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday on CD-ROM (1993–2000). Chadwyck-Healey. (206,762,410 words)
MNC Mid-Nineteenth-Century Corpus – a selection of British and American writings (complementary to the EAF and the NCF) by authors born between 1803 and 1829. Source: Project Gutenberg. Compiled in the Research Project 'Determinants of Grammatical Variation in English', University of Paderborn. (17,347,730 words)
MNC/A American writings in the MNC. (7,264,854 words)
MNC/B British writings in the MNC. (10,082,876 words)
N01 New York Times on CD-ROM (2001). ProQuest. (52,132,979 words)
NCF Nineteenth-Century Fiction (1999-2000). Chadwyck-Healey. (37,589,837 words)
NCF1 First part of the NCF containing only those authors born in the eighteenth century (*1728-*1799). (11,373,834 words)
NCF2 Second part of the NCF containing only those authors born in the nineteenth century (*1800-*1869). (26,041,862 words)
OED The Oxford English Dictionary (Second Edition) on CD-ROM (1992) (Version 1.10). Edited by John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
t90-04 The Times and The Sunday Times on CD-ROM (1990-2004). Chadwyck-Healey/ProQuest. (729,848,339 words)![Google Scholar](https://benjamins.com/logos/google-scholar.svg)
TAL89-94 Time Magazine on CD-ROM (1989–1994). (12,123,886 words)
W90-92 Washington Times (including Insight on the News 1990–1992) on CD-ROM (1990–1992). Wayzata Technology. (93,889,488 words)
wridom1 imaginative component of the BNC (=narrative fiction). (18,863,529 words)