Corpus of Historical American English

registration: 2012/12/25 00:20:00, last modified: 2012/12/25 02:55:00
title
  • Corpus of Historical American English
title.abbreviation
title.alternative
  • COHA
creator
  • researcher Mark Davies (Professor of Linguistics at Brigham Young University)
subject
  • on-line text corpus
subject.linguisticField
  • computational_linguistics
  • historical_linguistics
  • applied_linguistics
  • morphology
subject.monoMultilingual
  • monolingual
subject.resourceSubject
  • corpus
description
  • The COHA corpus is the largest structured corpus of historical American English, containing more than 400 million words of text of American English from 1810 to 2009. The users can see how words, phrases and grammatical constructions have increased or decreased in frequency, how words have changed meaning over time, and how stylistic changes have taken place in the language.
description.price *This metadata is only as a guide
  • Free (on-line service)
description.language
  • English
description.inputDevice
description.inputEnvironment
description.speakingStyle
description.speechMode
description.samplingRate
description.additionalData
publisher
  • Brigham Young University
contributor
contributor.attribute.author.motherTongue
contributor.attribute.author.dialect
contributor.attribute.author.level
contributor.attribute.author.age
contributor.attribute.author.gender
contributor.attribute.speaker.motherTongue
contributor.attribute.speaker.dialect
contributor.attribute.speaker.level
contributor.attribute.speaker.age
contributor.attribute.speaker.gender
contributor.attribute.speaker.number
date.created
date.issued
date.modified
type
  • Text
type.discourseType
type.linguisticType
  • primary_text
type.purpose
  • analysis
type.style
  • written
type.form
  • unfixed
type.sentence
  • short
  • long
type.annotation
  • annotated Search by word, phrase, part of speech, collocates, etc.
type.annotationSample
type.sample
format.extent
  • 400 million words
format.medium
  • online access
format.encoding
format.markup
format.functionality
identifier
identifier.doi
identifier.islrn
source
language
  • English American English
language.area
  • America USA
relation
relation.utilization *This metadata is automatically extracted
coverage.temporal
  • 1810-2009
coverage.spacial
  • USA
rights