Further reading: Selected corpus-related publications

For a more extended list of publications using the Brown family of corpora consult the manuals of the original and tagged versions. See also the CoRD bibliographies for the Brown corpus and the Lancaster-Osle/Bergen corpus.

For more information on the FLOB corpus see the manual of the original version at http://khnt.aksis.uib.no/icame/manuals/flob/INDEX.HTM and the manual of the POS-tagged version.

2005

Leech, Geoffrey and Nicholas Smith. 2005. "Extending the possibilities of corpus-based research on English in the twentieth century: A prequel to LOB and F-LOB." ICAME Journal 29, 83-98.

2002

Mair, Christian. 2002. "Short term diachronic shifts in part-of-speech frequencies: A comparison of the tagged LOB and F-LOB corpora." International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 7/2, 245-264.

1997

Hundt, Marianne. 1997. "Has British English been catching up with American English over the past thirty years?" Ljung, Magnus, ed. Corpus-Based Studies in English: Papers from the Seventeenth International Conference on English-Language Research Based on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 17). Amsterdam: Rodopi. pp. 135-51.

Mair, Christian. 1997. "Parallel corpora: A real-time approach to language change in progress." In Ljung, Magnus, ed. Corpus-Based Studies in English: Papers from the Seventeenth International Conference on English-Language Research Based on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 17). Amsterdam: Rodopi. pp. 195-209.

1996

Krug, Manfred. 1996. "Language change in progress: Contractions in journalese in 1961 and 1991/92." In McGill, S., ed. Proceedings of the 1995 Graduate Research Conference on Language and Linguistics. Exeter Working Papers in English Language Studies 1, Exeter. pp. 17-28.

Nelson, Gerald. 1996. "Markup Systems." In Greenbaum, Sidney, ed. Comparing English Worldwide - The International Corpus of English. Oxford: Clarendon. pp. 36-53.

1995

Lovejoy, James. 1995. "Prepositions in British and American English - A Computer-Aided Corpus Study." Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 20: 55-74.

Mair, Christian. 1995. "Changing patterns of complementation, and concomitant grammaticalisation, of the verb help in present-day British English." In Aarts, Bas and Charles F. Meyer, eds. The Verb in Contemporary English: Theory and Description. Cambridge: CUP, 258-272.

1992

Sand, Andrea and Rainer Siemund. 1992. "LOB - 30 years on..." ICAME Journal 16: 119-122.

1986

Johansson, S., et al. 1986. The tagged LOB corpus: users’ manual. Bergen: Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities.