RNC News

Old-timers remember that in the Main Corpus of the RNC there has been an option to compare exact search queries plotting them on a single chart. Now the Corpus offers an extended functionality for comparing query results:

• It is possible to compare search queries of different types, for example, the results of two lexico-grammatical queries. This is how we managed to find out when we started saying не более чем instead of не более как.
• Different subcorpora can be customized for different queries, e.g. comparing different authors or text types.
• All comparisons are made within a single corpus, and the functionality is now available in almost all corpora that use the new interface. Here is a historical accent study we managed to conduct in the Poetry corpus.

For access to  the new comparison functionality, we ask users to authorize with a login and password. This is necessary to be able to store a large number of query parameters and return to a previously saved comparison.