SHACHI - Language Resource Metadata Database

This is an information packet which contains acoustic and written data of Japanese dialect discourses spoken by the old native speakers. The data were collected in the project for the recording and preservation of the traditional Japanese dialects held by the Agency for Cultural Affairs during 1977-1985, and they will be compiled into 20 volumes in total (available in CD-ROM/CD/BOOKS). All volumes would provide us with valuable information to know the current status of the Japanese dialects, and it would contribute to Japanese language research and education.

This is an information packet which contains acoustic and written data of Japanese dialect discourses spoken by the old native speakers. The data were collected in the project for the recording and preservation of the traditional Japanese dialects held by the Agency for Cultural Affairs during 1977-1985, and they will be compiled into 20 volumes in total (available in CD-ROM/CD/BOOKS). All volumes would provide us with valuable information to know the current status of the Japanese dialects, and it would contribute to Japanese language research and education.

The BYU Corpus of American English is the first large corpus of American English, and it is freely available online. It contains more than 360 million words of text, including 20 million words each year from 1990-2007, and it is equally divided among spoken, fiction, popular magazines, newspapers, and academic texts. The corpus will also be updated at least twice each year from this point on, and will therefore serve as a unique record of linguistic changes in American English.

This website allows you to quickly and easily search more than 100 million words of text of American English from 1923 to the present, as found in TIME magazine. You can see how words and phrases have increased and decreased in usage and see how words have changed meaning over time.

This website allows you to quickly and easily search the 100 million word British National Corpus.
As with some other BNC interfaces, you can search for words and phrases by exact word or phrase, wildcard or part of speech, or combinations of these. You can also search for surrounding words (collocates) within a ten-word window (e.g. all nouns somewhere near paper, all adjectives near woman, or all nouns near spin).
With this architecture and interface, you can also easily find the frequency of words and phrases in any combination of registers that you define (spoken, academic, poetry, medical, etc). In addition, you can compare between registers -- for example, verbs that are more common in legal or medical texts, or nouns near break that are more common in fiction than in academic writing.
Finally, with our version you can easily compare between synonyms and other semantically-related words. One simple search, for example, compares the most frequent nouns that appear with sheer, complete, or utter (sheer nonsense, complete account, utter dismay). The interface also allows you to input information from WordNet (a semantically-organized lexicon of English) directly into the search form. This allows you to find the frequency and distribution of words with similar, more general, or more specific meanings.

This website allows you to quickly and easily search more than 100 million words in more than 20,000 Spanish texts from the 1200s to the 1900s. The interface allows you to search for exact words or phrases, wildcards, lemmas, part of speech, or any combinations of these. You can search for surrounding words (collocates) within a ten-word window (e.g. all nouns somewhere near cadena, all adjectives near mujer, or all nouns near girar).

This site allows you to find the frequency of nearly 150 different grammatical features (pronouns, tense, clauses, etc) in 20 different registers of Modern Spanish (e.g. conversation, fiction, newspapers, academic). It also lets you see examples of each of these constructions in context, from a 20 million word corpus of Spanish, taken from the 100 million word Corpus del Español.

This website allows you to quickly and easily search more than 45 million words in more than 50,000 Portuguese texts from the 1300s to the 1900s. The interface allows you to search for exact words or phrases, wildcards, lemmas, part of speech, or any combinations of these. You can also search for surrounding words (collocates) within a ten-word window (e.g. all nouns somewhere near cadeia, all adjectives near mulher, or all nouns near girar).

This site allows you to quickly search more than 22 million words of text in nearly 10,000 General Conference talks from the 1850s to the current time. You can enter in any word or phrase and see a chart showing the frequency in each decade during the past 150 years, see the word or phrase in context, and also sort the results by the preceding and following words in the phrase.

The corpus was placed online in late 2005, and new features will be added on a regular basis. These will include the ability to find all collocates (nearby words) for a given word, including shifts in collocates over time. It will also be able to compare the style and phraseology of different speakers. For more information, please contact Mark Davies, Professor of Corpus Linguistics at Brigham Young University.

Early English Books Online (1500s-1600s; 350m words) and Literature Online (mainly 1700s-1800s; 350m words)