Introducing the Wellington Corpus of Written New Zealand English

Abstract

I am pleased to be able to announce the publication of the Wellington Corpus of Written New Zealand English. The corpus (along with the manual describing it) is now available either from us at Victoria University or through the International Computer Archive of Modern English (ICAME) at the University of Bergen. In this paper, I shall give some brief details of the background to the corpus (most of which have already been described in Bauer 1993), discuss briefly the New Zealand characteristics of the corpus, and give a few simplistic examples of points which can be extrapolated from it.