corpus.byu.edu

Created by Mark Davies, BYU. Overview, search types, looking at variation, corpus-based resources, updates.

The most widely used online corpora -- more than 130,000 distinct researchers, teachers, and students each month.
 

English	# words	language/dialect	time period	compare
NOW Corpus   NEW	2.8 billion+	20 countries / Web	2010-yesterday
Global Web-Based English (GloWbE)	1.9 billion	20 countries / Web	2012-13
Wikipedia Corpus	1.9 billion	English	-2014	Info
Hansard Corpus (British Parliament)	1.6 billion	British	1803-2005	Info
Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)	520 million	American	1990-2015	* * * * *
Corpus of Historical American English (COHA)	400 million	American	1810-2009	* *
TIME Magazine Corpus	100 million	American	1923-2006
Corpus of American Soap Operas	100 million	American	2001-2012	*
British National Corpus (BYU-BNC)*	100 million	British	1980s-1993	* *
Strathy Corpus (Canada)	50 million	Canadian	1970s-2000s
CORE Corpus  NEW	50 million	Web registers	-2014
Other languages
Corpus del Español   (see also...)	100 million	Spanish	1200s-1900s	*
Corpus do Português   (see also...)	45 million	Portuguese	1300s-1900s
N-grams
Google Books: American English	155 billion	American	1500s-2000s	*
Google Books: British English	34 billion	British	1500s-2000s
Google Books: One Million Books	89 billion	Am/Br	1500s-2000s
Google Books: Spanish	45 billion	Spanish	1500s-2000s