A new version of the 100 million word [Corpus del Espaņol] is now online. This corpus has been created by Mark Davies of Illinois State University (with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities), and is available for free access and use at http://www.corpusdelespanol.org/.
This searchable collection of more than 10,000 texts from the 1200s-1900s allows a wider range of searches than any other corpus of Spanish. Users can search by:
-- synonyms [30,000 word sets]:
e.g. what are the most common synonyms of [inteligente] or [rico]
-- collocations [what words occur most with others]:
e.g. the most common adjectives with [cara], the most common nouns that occur after [suave], or the most common verbs with [chistes]
-- frequency: e.g. what
new
verbs have arisen since the 1800s, or what synonyms of
[roto] are more common in written than in spoken
Spanish
-- grammatical category: e.g. the most common infinitives
occurring after [imposible de], or the most common adjectives
after [noche]
-- lemma [word forms]: e.g.
the frequency of all of the forms of [decir] - in the 1200s, 1500s, or 1900s.
-- word patterns: e.g. word
ending in [-azo], or with [-camin-] anywhere in the word
--
user-defined lists: create your own lists (e.g. words related to emotions or clothing), and then re-use them in subsequent
searches
-- any combination of any of the previous searches
(example: all forms of all synonyms of [decir],
followed by all forms of all synonyms of [chiste].
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