subcorpus
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subcorpus (plural subcorpora)
- A subset of a corpus.
- 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, , page 110:
- Thus the word react occurs 2331 times in the Chemistry subcorpus, reacts occurs 2195 times, etc., and adding all members together, the REACT family occurs 27,991 times throughout Chemistry.