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Working with Early English Books Online
All corpora made accessible by the Czech National Corpus can be searched following registration). This is a course specifically aimed at work in the EEBO corpus (Early English Books Online), on the KonText interface.
Registration is necessary before beginning. Please refer to How to begin working with the Czech National Corpus.
EEBO basics in 8 lessons
| Lesson | Name | Content |
|---|---|---|
| 1. lesson | First query | How to begin. Frequency, concordance, query types |
| 2. lesson | Orthography and Spelling | Early Modern English spelling and orthography, CQL, regular expressions |
| 3. lesson | Competing forms | Development of competing forms by period/decade |
| 4. lesson | Specify query | Meta-information, frequency |
| 5. lesson | Collocations | Collocation candidates, association measures |
| 6. lesson | Morphology I | Difference in usage/contexts of two forms, positive/negative filter |
| 7. lesson | Morphology II | Verbal endings, derivational suffixes |
| 8. lesson | Multiword searches | Writing a query for multiword searches |
