Basic Search

The Basic Search allows you to search for terms that match exactly your search pattern (instead of searching the whole paradigm as in Quick Search) and to search for terms that start or end with a specified pattern.

You can also search for alternative terms (OR condition). With OR, you can search for texts that contain term X as well as texts that contain Y.

Tip

Suppose you search for Covid-19 OR Corona. You will find texts mentioning Covid-19 and texts mentioning Corona — including texts that happen to mention both. What OR does not do is restrict results to texts containing both terms.

To find texts that contain several terms together, create a subcorpus and specify the keywords that must appear in each text.

The Basic Search also allows you to filter by parts of speech (nouns, adjectives, verbs). The search is case-sensitive: uppercase letters are not converted to lowercase (A→a) in the background.

Examples in German

Option	Part of speech	Search term	Explanation
exact	any	geht	It searches for the term geht as you wrote it, without including the whole verb paradigm
start	any	Migration	It searches for all the terms beginning with Migration, like Migrationspolitik, Migrationshintergrund, etc.
end	any	Migration	It searches for all the terms ending with Migration, like Remigration, Emigration, Massenmigration, etc.
exact	noun	Essen	It searches for the term Essen only when it is annotated as a noun in the corpus.

Examples in French

Option	Part of speech	Search term	Explanation
exact	any	parle	It searches for the term parle exactly as written, without including other verb forms.
start	any	écolo	It searches for all terms starting with écolo, like écologie, écologiste, écolosceptique, etc.
end	any	isme	It searches for all terms ending with isme, like socialisme, capitalisme, futurisme, etc.
exact	noun	banc	It searches for the term banc only when it is annotated as a noun in the corpus.

Examples in Italian

Option	Part of speech	Search term	Explanation
exact	any	parla	It searches for the term parla exactly as written, without including other verb forms.
start	any	eco	It searches for all terms starting with eco, like ecologia, ecosistema, ecoturismo, etc.
end	any	zione	It searches for all terms ending with zione, like nazione, educazione, organizzazione, etc.
exact	noun	banca	It searches for the term banca only when it is annotated as a noun in the corpus.