Collections of text and corpora

• BNC (British National Corpus)
  A 100 million word corpus, syntactically tagged!

• LDC (Linguistic Data Consortium)
  The LDC supports language-related research by creating and sharing data, tools and standards.

• OTA (Oxford Text Archive)
  This is one of the well known corpora collecting points.

• The ECI Multilingual Corpus
  The European Corpus Initiative (ECI) was founded to oversee the acquisition and preparation of a large multilingual corpus, and supports existing and projected national and international efforts to carefully design, collect and publish large-scale multilingual written and spoken corpora.

• Project Gutenberg
  This is the official site of the project, with many links to FTP sites.