Table 1 Registers and genres in the four corpora.
Register | Code | Genre | Texts | Tokens | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
FLOB | COCE | LCMCD | LCMCG | ||||
News | A-C | News | 88 | 199,077 | 183,101 | 179,763 | 187,000 |
General | D | Religious writing | 17 | 38,485 | 34,968 | 32,688 | 33,441 |
| Â | E | Skills, trade and hobbies | 38 | 85,538 | 78,702 | 68,461 | 76,785 |
| Â | F | Popular lore | 44 | 99,079 | 91,134 | 83,278 | 88,051 |
| Â | G | Biographies and essays | 77 | 174,321 | 161,455 | 148,769 | 157,176 |
| Â | H | Miscellaneous | 30 | 67,014 | 61,616 | 69,031 | 71,210 |
Academic | J | Science | 80 | 182,109 | 164,704 | 151,876 | 157,781 |
Fiction | K | General fiction | 29 | 68,836 | 59,815 | 52,309 | 54,767 |
| Â | L | Mystery and detective | 24 | 57,209 | 49,566 | 44,326 | 46,458 |
| Â | M | Science fiction | 6 | 14,149 | 12,380 | 10,222 | 10,908 |
| Â | N | Adventure fiction | 29 | 67,905 | 58,869 | 50,399 | 55,678 |
| Â | P | Romantic fiction | 29 | 68,326 | 59,834 | 51,056 | 52,877 |
| Â | R | Humour | 9 | 21,223 | 18,825 | 16,403 | 16,704 |
Total | Â | Â | 500 | 1,143,271 | 1,034,969 | 958,581 | 1,008,836 |
