Each text belongs to one of four text classes.
Type | Texts | Tokens |
---|---|---|
Article | 7,249 | 28,815,193 |
Abstract | 2,243 | 1,993,180 |
Book review | 273 | 832,721 |
Obituary | 14 | 311,631 |
total | 9,779 | 31,952,725 |
The corpus covers two centuries of Early and Late Modern English.
Period | Texts | Tokens |
---|---|---|
1650 | 1,325 | 2,582,856 |
1700 | 1,686 | 3,414,793 |
1750 | 1,819 | 6,342,780 |
1800 | 2,774 | 9,112,563 |
1850 | 2,175 | 10,499,733 |
total | 9,779 | 31,952,725 |
Decade | Texts | Tokens |
---|---|---|
1660 | 308 | 455,259 |
1670 | 376 | 831,190 |
1680 | 268 | 573,018 |
1690 | 373 | 723,389 |
1700 | 355 | 780,721 |
1710 | 190 | 489,857 |
1720 | 295 | 538,145 |
1730 | 352 | 599,977 |
1740 | 494 | 1,006,093 |
1750 | 484 | 1,179,112 |
1760 | 408 | 972,672 |
1770 | 408 | 1,501,388 |
1780 | 300 | 1,354,124 |
1790 | 219 | 1,335,484 |
1800 | 518 | 1,615,564 |
1810 | 666 | 1,446,900 |
1820 | 286 | 1,408,473 |
1830 | 828 | 2,613,486 |
1840 | 476 | 2,028,140 |
1850 | 990 | 4,610,380 |
1860 | 1,185 | 5,889,353 |
total | 9,779 | 31,952,725 |