Corpora: Historical background of Corpus Linguistics

[ramesh at ccl.bham.ac.uk]

Dear Charo de Felipe

As far as I know, one of the earliest (perhaps *the* earliest)
publication of linguistic research using an electronic corpus
was:

J. McH. Sinclair, S. Jones, and R. Daley
English Lexical Studies:
Report to OSTI on Project C/LP/08
Department of English
University of Birmingham
January 1970

Unfortunately, very few copies of this seminal work
were made publicly available, so it may also be of
interest that it is currently being prepared for
re-publication by Birmingham University, and will
probably appear later this year.

Best wishes
Ramesh

Ramesh Krishnamurthy
Honorary Research Fellow, University of Birmingham;
Honorary Research Fellow, University of Wolverhampton;
Consultant, Cobuild and Bank of English Corpus, Collins Dictionaries.