Multiple choice

Which of these is a large and structured set of texts?

  1. Corpus

  2. Annotation

  3. Semantics

  4. Pragmatics

  5. Lexis

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Explanation

A corpus (plural corpora) or text corpus is a large and structured set of texts (nowadays usually electronically stored and processed). They are used to do statistical analysis and hypothesis testing, checking occurrences or validating linguistic rules within a specific language territory.