One of the best corpus available online. It has been made freely available by Brigham Young University. It was created by Mark Davies and is regulary updated about every 6-9months with new texts. You can do a variety of searches including searches for collocations and particular parts of speech. It seperates the data into fiction, speech, newspaper, magazine, and academic as well as by about 4 year blocks of time from 1990 to the present. This is a very effective tool to do in depth research about collocations and word usage.
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Tools Corpus of Contemporary American English
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| Cost to Use | Free! |
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| Homepage | http://www.americancorpus.org/ |
| Tags | free • reference • vocabulary • corpus |
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