Building a National Corpus

Dawn Knight is a Reader in Applied Linguistics at Cardiff University, UK, and Chair of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL). She was the Principal Investigator (PI) of the CorCenCC (National Corpus of Contemporary Welsh) project. Steve Morris is an Honorary Research Fellow in Applied Linguistics at Swansea University, UK. He was a co-investigator on the CorCenCC (National Corpus of Contemporary Welsh) project. Laura Arman is a Research Associate at Cardiff University, UK. Her research is centred on the linguistics of minoritised languages, with a focus on her native language of Welsh. Jennifer Needs works for the UK Civil Service as a Welsh language translator. She previously worked at Swansea University and Cardiff University as a Welsh-medium researcher. Mair Rees gained her PhD in Welsh literature from Cardiff University, UK in 2012. She was a creative editor for amajor Welsh-language publisher for four years before joining the CorCenCC team as a research assistant. She currently works part-time as a translator in addition to running her own small business.

• Chapter 1: Traditions in Corpus Design.- Chapter 2: Current Welsh-language Corpora.- Chapter 3: Visions and Aims of CorCenCC.- Chapter 4: Work-flow: The Processes of Corpus Design and Construction.- Chapter 5: Copyright, Permissions and Licenses.- Chapter 6: Spoken Data.- Chapter 7: Written Data.- Chapter 8: E-Language Data.- Chapter 9: Challenges and Solutions.- Chapter 10: Summary and Guidelines for Good Practice.