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In:Multilingual Corpus Research: Advances and challenges
Edited by Noelia Ramón and María Pérez Blanco
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 126] 2026
► pp. 1–18

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Introduction
Exploring multilingual corpora in linguistic research

Advances and challenges

 | University of León
 | University of León
Published online: 20 February 2026
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Article outline
  • 1.Multilingual corpora: Parallel, comparable and beyond
  • 2.Contributions to this volume
  • Notes
  • References
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