Corpora and reference works available to UniGraz members

German

  • Access: upon request to Barbara Schuppler (see Further Information for details)
  • Content: Audio recordings & orthographic transcriptions in Praat Textgrids; read aloud speech & spontaneous conversational speech (19 hours)
  • Language: German (Austrian)
  • Further information can be found at the following link

 

English

  • Access: physically in the English Studies Computer Room
  • Content: diachronic (1960s-1980s), parsed
  • Language: English
  • Further information can be found at the following link
  • Contact: gerlinde.trinkl(at)uni-graz.at

DCPSE is a corpus of spoken English available on CD-ROM. It contains more than 400,000 words from the ICE-GB (collected in the early 1990s) and 400,000 words from the London-Lund Corpus (late 1960s to early 1980s).

  • Access: physically in the English Studies Computer Room (University of Graz)
  • Content: synchronised (1990s), parsed
  • Language: English
  • Contact: gerlinde.trinkl(at)uni-graz.at

ICE-GB is the British component of the International Corpus of English (ICE). ICE was founded in 1990 with the primary aim of providing material for comparative studies of English varieties around the world.

  • Access: online via unikat using VPN (extended licence for UniGraz members)
  • Content: diverse (synchronic, diachronic), POS-tagged
  • Language: English
  • Further information can be found at the following link

 

English Corpora contains 19 corpora, including:

  • Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)
  • Corpus of Historical American English (COHA)
  • British National Corpus (BNC)

  • Access: online via VPN
  • Content: diachronic (1410–1663)
  • Language: English
  • Variant: Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence (PCEEC)
  • Further information can be found at the following link
  • Contact: gerlinde.trinkl(at)uni-graz.at

The Corpus of Early English Correspondence (CEEC) was compiled for research in historical sociolinguistics. The application of sociolinguistic methods is made possible by an extensive database containing background information on the letter writers. A second database contains information on each letter, including the sender and recipient as well as details on authenticity.

  • Access: online via VPN
  • Content: diachronic (OE-PDE)
  • Language: English

The reference work contains over 600,000 word entries, including related variants, word explanations, etymology, synonyms, pronunciation and literary quotations. The online version of the OED contains the complete data from the 2nd edition of 1989, including the additions from 1992 and 1997, and is updated quarterly with new word entries or entries revised for the planned 3rd edition of the OED.

  • Access: physically in the computer room of the English Department at the University of Graz
  • Content: synchronised, spoken (with audio)
  • Language: English
  • Contact: gerlinde.trinkl(at)uni-graz.at