THE HISTORY OF CORPORA MAKING

Abstract

The development of corpus linguistics as well as the construction of corpora is one of the current issues of modern linguistics. Today, the use of corpora plays a leading role in most linguistic research. Although back in the first half of the twentieth century, corpus making was only possible by hand. It was time-consuming, labor-intensive and expensive. Therefore the use of corpora was minimal and only when a large number of researchers were interested in it. But thanks to the development of electronic technologies the use of corpora is now possible everywhere.