The term "corpus" that we use as specialists and the word
"corpus" defined in Oxfords have smth common. But they (common words
and terms) are different realities - as human beings and dolls - or
take any other comparison.
If we try to define the difference between terms "corpus (C)" and
"el. archive - (EA)" - then - I think the starting point should be
somewhere here. The purpose, function or anything of archive is to
store, save info (texts) and make them available. This is its main
idea.
C is a kind of supertext. In the beginning of ANY text is idea.
It is true for C. I compile my C according to my (research) idea - ask
people for proper sources (EA, books, etc). I can find EA that totally
matches my idea - then it is my luck.
If my C is good and other people need it - it can become EA.
These two terms have smth in common - but sometimes there is a
difference.
I want to write a love letter. I can find the proper one in a
special book, or take the proper passages from it or write it totally
myself. The initial idea is mine.
Sorry - it is not a pair of words
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YS Vladimir Rykov, PhD in Computational Linguistics
www.blkbox.com/~gigawatt/rykov.html Linguistic Institute
WWW.GOL.RU/~iling 1/12 B.Kislovsky per., Moscow, 103009
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