[Corpora-List] What is corpora and what is not?

Mike Maxwell maxwell at umiacs.umd.edu
Wed Oct 3 23:47:35 UTC 2012


> I quite agree about machine-readability: the reason that we use the Latin word corpus is that the
> Romans already had corpora, such as this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_Juris_Civilis
> (which is just as good a corpus as anything machine-readable).

There are also these Roman "corpora":
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/upyernoz/2206911904/

BTW, I'm surprised no one here has resorted to the (English) corpora to decide the meaning of "corpora."

    Mike Maxwell

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