In This Guide:

Language and Linguistics: Corpus Research

Corpus Research

Corpus (plural is corpora) research, also called computational linguistics, uses a large body of digital text to analyze grammar, syntax, or spoken discourse.

Micase Online
The Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English, is a tagged, searchable and freely accessible corpus
WordNet
WordNet (Princeton) provides a lexical, semantically-annotated database for the English language

Corpus Linguistics by Wolfgang Teubert; Anna Cermáková
Call Number: P98 .T42 2007

This readable introductory textbook presents a concise survey of corpus linguistics. Explaining corpus linguistics in easy to understand terms, and including a glossary and suggestions for further reading, this book will be useful to students trying to get a grasp on this subject.
Corpus Linguistics Beyond the Word by Eileen Fitzpatrick
Call Number: P98.3 .N67

This volume will be of particular interest to readers interested in expanding the applications of corpus linguistics techniques through new tools and approaches.
The MICASE Handbook by Rita C. Simpson-Vlach; Sheryl Leicher
Call Number: Mem level 4 lower PE1074.5 .S56 2006

The MICASE Handbook: A Resource for Users of the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English is designed to provide teachers, researchers, and students with a tool for navigating and effectively utilizing the online corpus of academic speech developed by the English Language Institute at the University of Michigan.

Culturomics: Using Google Books Data

Google Ngram Viewer
The Google Labs N-gram Viewer allows researchers to examine the frequency of words in more than 5 million books over time. The browser allows a choice of corpora, including both American and British English, Chinese, French, etc