Well, I never said I wanted to define a corpus by this criterion. It was
just an observation on what makes some corpora distinct from archives.
> Isn't it perhaps better to think of a corpus as a just collection of texts,
> no more and no less?
I would still want to stick to my point that it's a purposeful collection,
with linguistic criteria in mind, not any old collection of random textual
material.
Have a good weekend everybody,
Oliver
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