Historical Perspective: What are Corpora and How have they Evolved?(Pre-Published Version)

Corpus linguistics nowadays is perhaps most readily associated in the minds of linguists with searching through screen after screen of concordance lines and wordlists generated by computer software, in an attempt to make sense of phenomena in big texts or big collections of smaller texts. This method of exegesis based on detailed searches for words and phrases in multiple contexts across large amounts of text can be traced back to the 13 century, when biblical scholars and their teams of minions pored over page after page of the Christian Bible and manually indexed its words, line by line, page by page. Concordancing arose out of a practical need to specify for other biblical scholars, in alphabetical arrangement, the words contained in the bible, along with citations of where and in what passages they occurred.

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