[Corpora-List] labels of COLT files in BNC spoken

[Ute Römer]

Dear all,

I was wondering if anyone of you could tell me which text files in the BNC are COLT files. I checked David Lee's Excel spreadsheet and the BNC World list of texts (on the SARA2 start page) but didn't find the information I was hoping to get (maybe I didn't search long enough though). 
The thing is that I'm trying to nail down repeated occurrences of "ai n't" plus progressive form (and missing form of TO BE plus progressive form) in BNC (spoken) data which I don't get in my Bank of English (brspok) data. I thought that the amount of teenage and adolescent language in the BNC might be a possible explanation for fragmentary constructions. It's not a big thing, really, and I suppose I could check the headers of all the BNC files my concordance examples come from (to see how old the participants are), but maybe there is an easier/faster option. 

Thanks in advance and best wishes. Ute


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Ute Römer
English Department
University of Hanover
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Germany

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