What is it about?

This was the situation of corpora in French at the time of writing. The background remains valid, but more corpora have become available over the last 5 years

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Why is it important?

It is the truthful background to corpus building in French

Perspectives

It is now out of date. The Consortium Corpus of HumaNum is a far better entry point to what s happening in French 'corpora', bearing in mind that the word corpus is used very loosely in French compared to the definitions of those practicing real corpus linguistics in the Sinclairian tradition

Professor Geoffrey Clive Williams
Universite de Bretagne-Sud

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This page is a summary of: Corpora: French-Language, November 2012, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal0230.
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