THE STRUCTURE AND COMPONENTS OF THE BRITISH NATIONAL CORPUS

The topic of the corpus is closely connected with the contemporary corpus type of English language The British National Corpus (BNC). BNC is a 100 million word corpus containing samples of written and spoken British English from a wide range of sources. The corpus covers late 20th century British English represented by a wide variety of genres and is intended to be representative of the typical spoken and written British English of the time.