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Brigham Young University. University of Texas at Austin.
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Mark Davies
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He specializes in the creation of linguistic corpora that can be used to better study and understand word meaning. He is the main creator of COCA, the Corpus of Contemporary American English. He received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to build a comparable Spanish language corpus, the Corpus del Español, and another one to create a corpus of Portuguese texts covering material from the 12th century to the present day.
Another corpus he compiled is a diachronic corpus of English, containing texts from the years 1810 through 2009, called COHA, the Corpus of Historical American English.
This project was also funded by the National Endowment for Humanities. Davies is also the creator of the General Conference corpus, which allows a study of how the use of words from the Latter- Day Saints (Mormons) General Conference has changed over time. Davies earned a bachelor"s degree with a double major in linguistics and Spanish from Brigham Young University in 1986.
He earned an Master of Arts in Spanish linguistics also from Brigham Young University in 1989. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy in Iberoromance philology and linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1992.
From 1993-2003 Davies was a professor at Illinois State University.
He is currently a professor of linguistics at Brigham Young University (Brigham Young University) where he has been on the faculty since 2003. In 2008 he held the Barker Lectureship at Brigham Young University.
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