ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an opportunity to use readily available corpora to conduct corpus linguistics projects. It also provides practical experience in many corpus linguistic methodologies, including Keyword in Context (KWIC), collocations, use of search terms, and register analysis. The projects focuses on a number of different corpora developed by Mark Davies at Brigham Young University. The corpora include different varieties of English, including American (Corpus of Contemporary American English), British (British National Corpus), and Canadian (Strathy Corpus). The corpora allow for comparisons of language across different varieties of English. A list of the corpora that we can use for the corpus projects include Global Web-Based English (GloWbE), Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), Corpus of Historical American English (COHA), TIME Magazine Corpus, British National Corpus (BYU-BNC), Strathy Corpus (Canada). Publically Available Corpora project examines the modal verb going to in detail. It also considers the connotations of a group of adjectives that occur in both attributive and predicative positions.
