Mark Davies Linguist, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Age, Net Worth, Biography

Mark E.
Davies (born 1963) is an American linguist.
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 NEH.
Davies is also the creator of the General Conference corpus, which allows a study of how the use of words from the LDS General Conference has changed over time.Davies earned a bachelor's degree with a double major in linguistics and Spanish from BYU in 1986.
He earned an MA in Spanish linguistics also from BYU in 1989.
He earned his Ph.D.
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 (BYU) where he has been on the faculty since 2003.
In 2008 he held the Barker Lectureship at BYU.
Not only does he teach Corpus linguistics, but he also teaches an English grammar class.

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