Definition of corpus & Corpus Linguistics | History & Scope of corpus Linguistics | kinds of corpus

Corpus linguistics approaches the study of language in use through corpora (singular: corpus). A corpus is a large, principled collection of naturally occurring examples of language stored electronically. Corpus linguistics is the study of language based on large collections of "real life" language use stored in corpora (or corpuses)—computerized databases created for linguistic research. It is also known as corpus-based studies.