The IPCH(H)G, like other corpora in the Penn family, is queried using CorpusSearch 2.
You may use the corpus in two ways. You can download the most recent versions of the parsed files from our GitHub repo and run CorpusSearch 2 on your own machine. This will allow the full range of functions that CorpusSearch 2 offers, such as creating your own definitions, revising the corpus, etc.
For simple searches, you may use our search form. (Note that this queries the versions of the texts on this website, which in some cases may be older versions.) Instructions for the search form:
- Select files: Select files to be queried, either by period in the dropdown menu, or by ctrl-clicking individual text namess.
- Query: Type your query here. An example CorpusSearch query is
(IP-SUB* idoms BEDS*) AND (IP-SUB* idoms VBN*), which will search for subordinate clauses that contain the past subj. of the verb sein and a participle. Note that CorpusSearch 2 assumes that the repetition of an argument refers to the same argument; in plain language, the query above means 'subordinate IP immediately dominates be.PAST.SUBJ and the same subordinate IP also immediately dominates the past participle of a lexical verb'. (Note that the AI assistant can write a very simple query for you but is extremely inaccurate for slightly more complicated queries; for best results study the CorpusSearch 2 documentation.) - Node: You must specify the node; $ROOT will search the entire tree, or you can search within smaller constituents (see the CorpusSearch documentation for the consequences of searching within different nodes).
- Options: This field is optional. Options are described in the CorpusSearch documentation.
- Click submit, then click 'show results' or 'download results'.
- Note: search results can be easily color coded by adding indices like {1} before arguments, and pre- and appending color tags: