English-Corpora.org: comparing COCA and BNC

(Created July 2023) See related videos:    • English-Corpora   Jump to section: 00:39 Introduction: A history of the BNC and COCA 02:20 Introduction: Dialectal differences 04:21 Introduction: BNC 2014 Written ("What is a corpus?") 08:27 Genres: overview 12:07 Genres: web/blogs 13:14 Genres: spoken 15:48 Genres: academic 19:16 Size: overview 19:59 Size: syntax 21:56 Size: lexical (word meaning and usage) 25:43 Size: number of texts (granularity for Virtual Corpora) 28:40 Historical: "missing" data 33:36 Historical: changes in meaning and usage 35:34 Historical: BNC much older data than COCA 37:21 Conclusion (and notes on proposed LANA corpus)