Brown corpus of present day American English / W. Nelson Francis and Henry Kuçera

Abstract

“The corpus consists of approximately 1,014,000 graphic words of running text, all of which was first printed in the United States in the year 1961” Publication based on OTA text: Francis, W. Nelson (Winthrop Nelson), 1910- , and Kucera, Henry. -- Frequency analysis of English usage : lexicon and grammar. -- Boston [MA] : Houghton Mifflin, 1982. -- pp. 3-15 Publication based on OTA text: Francis, W. Nelson (Winthrop Nelson), 1910- , and Kucera, Henry. -- Computational analysis of present-day American English. -- Providence [RI] : Brown University Press, 1967. -- pp. xvii-xxv Publication based on OTA text: Francis, W. Nelson (Winthrop Nelson), 1910- , and Kucera, Henry. -- Manual of information to accompany a standard sample of present-day edited American English for use with digital computers. -- Rev. and aug. ed. -- Providence [RI] : Brown University Press, 1971 Publication based on OTA text: Francis, W. Nelson (Winthrop Nelson), 1910- . -- A standard sample of present-day English for use with digital computers. -- Providence [RI] : Brown University Press, 1964. -- Report to the U.S. Office of Education on Cooperative Research Project No. E-007 “Brown corpus bibliography” in ICAME News 2 (s.d.): 9-12 Publication based on OTA text: Johansson, Stig, 1924- . -- Some aspects of the vocabulary of learned and scientific English. -- Göteborg : Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, [1978]. -- (Gothenburg studies in English ; 42). -- ISBN 9173460508 Publication based on OTA text: Johansson, Stig, 1924- . -- “Corpus-based studies of British and American English” in Papers from the Scandanavian Symposium on Syntactic Variation, Stockholm, May, 18-19, 1979. -- S. Jacobson, ed. -- Stockholm : Almqvist [and] Wiksell, 1980. -- (Stockholm studies in English ; 52) Publication based on OTA text: Johansson, Stig, 1924- . -- “Word frequencies in British and American English : some preliminary observations” in ALVAR : A linguistically varied assortment of readings ; studies presented to Alvar Ellegård on the occasion of his 60th birthday. -- J. Allwood and M. Ljund, eds. -- Stockholm : University of Stockholm, Dept. of English, 1980. -- (Stockholm papers in English language and literature ; 1) Publication based on OTA text: Johansson, Stig, 1924- and Hofland, Knut. -- Word frequencies in British and American English. -- Bergen : Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities, 1982. -- ISBN 8272830256 Publication based on OTA text: Meijs, Willem. -- “Exploring Brown with QUERY” in Computer corpora in English language research. -- Stig Johansson, ed. -- Bergen : Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities, 1982. -- pp. 34-48 Publication based on OTA text: Meijs, Willem. -- “‘You can do so if you want to’ : some elliptic structures in Brown and LOB and their syntactic description” in Computer corpora in English language research. -- Jan Aarts and Willem Meijs, eds. -- Amsterdam : Rodopi, 1984. -- (Costerus. New series ; 45). -- ISBN 9062036961. -- pp. 141-162 Publication based on OTA text: Nancy, Belmore. -- Working with Brown and LOB on a microcomputer. -- Jan Aarts and Willem Meijs, eds. -- Amsterdam ; Atlanta [GA] : Rodopi, 1990. -- (Language and computers : studies in practical linguistics ; 4). -- ISBN 9051831749. -- pp. 27-43 Catalogued on RLIN. -- Archival copy is at Be