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The Cambridge International Corpus (CIC) is a collection of over 2 billion words [1] of real spoken and written English. The texts are stored in a database that can be searched to see how English is used. The CIC also contains the Cambridge Learner Corpus, a unique collection of over 60,000 exam papers from Cambridge ESOL.
He was Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Cambridge from 2000 to 2022, and President of Clare Hall from 2013 to 2020. [1] From 2009 until 2012, he served as the chairman of the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. [2] He was General Editor of the Cambridge Law Journal between 2003 and 2009.
Text corpora (singular: text corpus) are large and structured sets of texts, which have been systematically collected.Text corpora are used by corpus linguists and within other branches of linguistics for statistical analysis, hypothesis testing, finding patterns of language use, investigating language change and variation, and teaching language proficiency.
After a PhD and some years of teaching at Manchester University, he returned to Cambridge where he was a University Professor in Jurisprudence until his retirement in 2018. At Corpus , Nigel Simmonds was Director of Studies in Law and Dean of College.
Legal English, also known as legalese, [1] is a register of English used in legal writing. It differs from day-to-day spoken English in a variety of ways including the use of specialized vocabulary, syntactic constructions, and set phrases such as legal doublets .
A 2005 law review article by Lawrence Solan noted in passing that corpus linguistics had potential for its application to interpreting legal texts. [1] But the first systematic exploration and advocacy of applying the tools and methodologies of corpus linguistics to legal interpretive questions of law and corpus linguistics came in the fall of 2010, when the BYU Law Review published a note by ...
The Cambridge Guide to English Usage by Pam Peters is a usage dictionary, giving an up-to-date account of the debatable issues of English usage and written style.It is based on extensive, up-to-date corpus data rather than on the author's personal intuition or prejudice, and differentiates among US, UK, Canadian and Australian usages.
The Cambridge Law Journal was founded in 1921 as a student publication by the Cambridge University Law Society, though there was a Faculty editor, initially Arthur Lehman Goodhart, a fellow at Corpus Christi. [3] Subsequent editors included Sir Percy Winfield (1929-47) and Stanley Bailey. The Journal was initially published by Stevens & Sons Ltd.