General resources

• English Language Corpora and Corpus Resources
• ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English).
  The ICAME Journal contains essays on historical and PDE variation, if you have an acrobat reader and can read them!
• UCREL Home Page: University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language

Old English

• The Helsinki Corpus of English: Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English
• Toronto Dictionary of Old English Corpus

Middle English

• Corpus of Middle English Verse and Prose
• The Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English
• Larry Benson’s Database of Chaucer’s Language

Early Modern English

• The Lampeter Corpus of Early Modern English Tracts
• The Michigan Corpus of Early Modern English Materials
• The Corpus of Early English Correspondence (Terttu Nevalainen et al)
• A corpus of late 18c Prose (David Denison)
• Corpus of Late Modern English Prose (David Denison)

Present Day English

• The International Corpus of English
• The British National Corpus
• The Longman Corpus Network
• A Corpus of Written British Creole
• The Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Language
• Corpus of Spoken Professional American English

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This site is maintained by Professor Carol Percy, Department of English, University of Toronto

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