[Corpora-List] Letter Corpus?

From: Kilian Evang (kevang@web.de)
Date: Thu Nov 02 2006 - 23:34:13 MET

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    Dear Sir or Madam,

    I am writing to you as a student assistant of Prof. Sigrid Beck at the
    University of Tübingen (Chair of descriptive and theoretical
    linguistics), currently involved in a research project that compares
    the use of 'again' in 19th century vs. contemporary English. We're
    studying letters written by native speakers. For 19th century English,
    we already have sufficient material, now we want to put together a
    corpus of letters by about 20 different speakers written after 1990,
    ideally summing up to at least 45 occurences of 'again' for each
    speaker. As an alternative to letters, interview transcripts would be
    fine. We would be grateful for any source you could refer us to or any
    hint you could give us.

    Yours sincerely,
    Kilian Evang



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