Corpora: Parallel corpora and French software

[NOELLE-VERONIQUE SERPOLLET]

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Dear list members,

I am a French PhD student researching in Corpus Linguistics at
Lancaster University. My PhD deals with modality and the subjunctive
and my aim is to carry out a contrastive analysis on the French and
English languages.

I have been working on the Lancaster-Oslo-Bergen corpus (LOB)
and on the Freiburg-LOB corpus (FLOB) for the English part
of my data.
Now I have started working on French corpora.
I already have got some corpora (and I am aware of others) that I can
use but I was wondering if you could send me a list of data which I
could
have access to and on which I would be able to carry some analyses.
Ideally, I would like to gather a French/English parallel corpus
(with the texts being aligned if possible).

I will appreciate any contribution and help.

Furthermore, are you aware of corpus tools (taggers/lemmatizers)
that I could use for my analyses of the French?
(I know about Cordial 6 Universites and will probably purchase it,
and I am currently working with ParaConc (Barlow, 1995)).

I would be grateful if you could tell me where I could obtain
a tagger/concordancer which would enable me to retrieve occurrences
of the French subjunctive.

Thank you in advance for your help, your answers and suggestions.
Noelle

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Noelle SERPOLLET
Department of Linguistics and MEL
Lancaster University,
LANCASTER, LA1 4YT, UK
n.serpollet at lancaster.ac.uk