8. Useful Internet resources
This informative webpage has been created by the English linguistics department of Freiburg University and contains explanations of the terms “corpus” and “corpus linguistics”. It also lists different types of corpora and provides instructions and screenshots on how to work with WordSmith. Furthermore, you can do some corpus-based exercises and find out what you should consider when working with corpora.
The first link of the webpage of the University of Heidelberg contains detailed information on corpus linguistics, corpora and useful software including WordSmith. Furthermore, you can go through some example corpus studies and read about aspects to consider when conducting a corpus analysis. The second link will lead you to a list of corpora including the variety and the time span they cover, the number of words and the types of texts the prevailing corpus is compiled of. Moreover, the corpora are assigned to different categories. On the bottom of the page, there is a link to a web chi square calculator. You can thus find out about the statistical significance of the results of your own corpus-based project.
This website of the Universities of Helsinki and Jyväskylä contains a Corpus Resource Database (CoRD) with which you can find out more about a large number of corpora including all of the corpora Mair has used in his analysis.
On this website of the University of Bamberg, you can find links to guides for WordSmith and ICECUP.
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