We are excited to introduce Deutsche Romane des 19. Jahrhunderts (DE19), a 4.5-million-word corpus of nineteenth-century German novels designed to be comparable to the 19th Century Reference Corpus of English (EN19). DE19 is available to download now and will soon be accessible via the CLiC web app (Mahlberg et al., 2020). Supporting contrastive concordance reading We … Continue reading “Deutsche Romane des 19. Jahrhunderts (DE19): A nineteenth-century reference corpus of German novels for contrastive analysis”
What is the #RC21 project all about?
Organising and interpreting concordance lines via a Key Word in Context (KWIC) display format is probably the most central technique in corpus linguistics. This kind of vertical ‘reading’ helps analysts spot patterns in large samples of language, adding a qualitative dimension to studies of frequency, collocation, and keyness. Project background The use of computers to find … Continue reading “What is the #RC21 project all about?”