Corpora of Historical American English
| Authors: | Mark Davies |
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| Updated: | Fri 30 April 2010 |
| Source: | https://www.english-corpora.org/coha/ |
| Type: | English corpus |
| Languages: | English |
| Keywords: | historical-English, genre, corpora, linguistics, syntax |
| Open Access: | yes |
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| Documentation: | https://www.english-corpora.org/coha/help/articles.asp |
| Publications: | Davies, M. (2012). “Expanding Horizons in Historical Linguistics with the 400 million word Corpus of Historical American English”. Corpora 7: 121-57.; Davies, M. (2012). "Examining Recent Changes in English: Some Methodological Issues". In The Oxford Handbook of the History of English, eds. Terttu Nevalainen and Elizabeth Closs Traugott. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press. 263-87. |
| Citation: | Davies, M. (2010). Corpora of Historical American English. English-Corpora. https://www.english-corpora.org/coha/ |
| Summary: | COHA contains more than 475 million words of text from the 1820s-2010s (which makes it 50-100 times as large as other comparable historical corpora of English) and the corpus is balanced by genre decade by decade. |