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<div>I am a first-year doctoral student of English linguistics at Lund University, Sweden, and I seeking help regarding available corpora of present-day spoken British English. <br>
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For my PhD project, I am planning to work on epistemic and evidential first-person complement-taking predicates, such as <i>I think</i>, <i>I believe</i>, <i>I guess</i>, <i>I reckon</i>, etc. I am particularly interested in the development of these constructions
in present-day spoken British English. At the moment I am working with the wonderful London-Lund Corpus (LLC), a spoken language corpus of British English recorded in the 1960s-1970s. However, I am having problems finding corpora representative of British
English as it is spoken <i>now</i>, i.e. after the turn of the century, or even after the 2010s. This would then allow me to study change over a longer period of time than corpora, such as BNC and ICE-GB, would allow me to do.</div>
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<div>Therefore, I am curious to know if there are any available corpora of British English compiled and recorded after the 2000s. I would be grateful for any feedback and suggestions regarding the matter.</div>
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<div>Kind regards,</div>
<div>Nele Põldvere</div>
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<div style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px"><font size="2"><font face="Tahoma">Nele P</font><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><font face="Tahoma">õldvere<br>
PhD Candidate<br>
English Studies<br>
Centre for Languages and Literature<br>
Lund University<br>
Box 201, <br>
221 00 Lund<br>
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