Meanings
- not comparableNot of or relating to a corpus.
It might be claimed that much of the noncorpus data I have mentioned above is performance data and therefore is not relevant to the task of grammar construction and verification.
1974, David Cohen, Explaining linguistic phenomena, page 641 more example
Most of this noncorpus poetry has previously not been easily accessible and has been ignored by the critics, with the notable exceptions of Laurence Housman, Tom Burns Haber, and William White.
2002, Carol Efrati, The Road of Danger, Guilt, and Shame, page 13
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