One of the most powerful tools is the corpus, the importance of testing our hypothesis .
Corpus: a collection (a group) of naturally occurring (a monolingual corpus is made of the
original text that can be found irl) slanguage chosen to characterize a state or a language
Diachronic state: evoluzione of a language
Sincronic state: a period of time
Corpora are collections of texts or whole sections of texts.
Considerable thought is given to the selection of material
The corpus should represent the language that we want to represent.
