Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of plates
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Exploring nineteenth-century English – past and present perspectives
- 1 Modifiers describing women and men in nineteenth-century English
- 2 Words in English Record Office documents of the early 1800s
- 3 The subjunctive in adverbial clauses in nineteenth-century English
- 4 The passive in nineteenth-century scientific writing
- 5 Relativizers in nineteenth-century English
- 6 Anaphoric reference in the nineteenth century: that/those + of constructions
- 7 Adjective comparison in nineteenth-century English
- 8 Nonfinite complement clauses in the nineteenth century: the case of remember
- 9 The in -ing construction in British English, 1800–2000
- 10 Partitive constructions in nineteenth-century English
- Appendix
- References
- Name index
- Subject index
Appendix
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of plates
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Exploring nineteenth-century English – past and present perspectives
- 1 Modifiers describing women and men in nineteenth-century English
- 2 Words in English Record Office documents of the early 1800s
- 3 The subjunctive in adverbial clauses in nineteenth-century English
- 4 The passive in nineteenth-century scientific writing
- 5 Relativizers in nineteenth-century English
- 6 Anaphoric reference in the nineteenth century: that/those + of constructions
- 7 Adjective comparison in nineteenth-century English
- 8 Nonfinite complement clauses in the nineteenth century: the case of remember
- 9 The in -ing construction in British English, 1800–2000
- 10 Partitive constructions in nineteenth-century English
- Appendix
- References
- Name index
- Subject index
Summary
This appendix lists the CONCE corpus source texts, and the text-level codes used in the corpus. The information draws on appendices 1 and 2 in Smitterberg (2005). More detailed information on the source texts will be provided in the forthcoming manual to the CONCE corpus.
In the list of source texts, the entries are sorted first according to period and secondly according to genre (in alphabetical order). All word counts given were obtained using the computer program Hcount.
List of source texts
Period 1 (1800–1830)
Debates
The Parliamentary Debates from the Year 1803 to the Present Time: Forming a Continuation of the Work Entitled ‘The Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803.’ Vol. XV. Word count: 19,908.
Drama
Holcroft, T. The Vindictive Man. Word count: 13,639.
Morton, T. The School of Reform; or, How to Rule a Husband. Word count: 8,829.
Poole, J. Lodgings for Single Gentlemen. Word count: 8,843.
Fiction
Austen, J. Emma. Word count: 9,975.
Hook, T. E. Maxwell. Word count: 22,077.
Shelley, M. W. The Last Man. Word count: 9,980.
History
Hallam, H. The Constitutional History of England from the Accession of Henry VII. to the Death of George II. Word count: 10,142.
Lingard, J. A History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of Henry VIII. Word count: 10,373.
Milman, H. H. The History of the Jews. Word count: 10,389.
Letters
Austen = Jane Austen: Selected Letters 1796–1817 (ed. R. W. Chapman). Word count: 10,321.
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- Nineteenth-Century EnglishStability and Change, pp. 272 - 277Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006