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Compilation Corpus of Historical Dutch
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The compilation corpus of historical Dutch consists of two subcorpora
in which each subcorpus covers a part of the history of Dutch and
represents one type of specific language use. The subcorpus of
chancellery texts (1250-1800) aims to represent the regionally
coloured language use typical of the written language of the Middle
Ages and contains a selection of local chancellery texts from the
three dialect regions Flanders, Brabant and Holland. The subcorpus of
narrative texts (1575-2000) aims to give a balanced representation of
the written language use in Holland from the end of the sixteenth
century to the present day. The balanced composition of the
compilation corpus enables the user to follow language changes
uninterruptedly in time and space from the earliest Dutch to the
present day. The corpus contains in total around 600 000 words.

	Cited from http://www.eviecousse.be/compilationcorpus.htm
	June 15, 2017


HistCorp inclusion date
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February 1, 2017


Website
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http://www.eviecousse.be/compilationcorpus.htm


Contact information
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evie.cousse@gu.se


Licence
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Freely available for scientific research. Send an e-mail to
evie.cousse@gu.se to get a copy of the corpus. 


Size
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1350 texts, with a total of approximately 575,068 tokens. 


Genres
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chancellery and narrative texts.