el corpus del español

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The Corpus del Español that was released in 2016 (Web-Dialects; CdE:New) contains about two billion words of data, which is about 100 times as much data as in the 1900s portion of the previous Corpus del Español (History-Genres; CdE:Old) . As a result, it provides much richer data on a wide range of phenomena. The following are just a few examples.

Lexical

There are 422 verbs with a lemma frequency of between 300 and 500 in CdE:New. The following shows how many times these same verbs appear in CdE:Old. Of the 422 verbs in CdE:New, nearly three out of four verbs (74%) have ten tokens or less in CdE:Old, which really isn't enough to say anything about the verbs. And only 7 / 422 (about 2%) have 50 tokens or more.
 

Semantic

Without enough tokens of a given word, it is impossible to look at collocates ("nearby words") to say much about the meaning and usage of a word. For example, we have chosen (almost at random) a verb, noun, adjective, and adverb from CdE:New, to show how many different collocates occur with this word (at least three times as a lemma, between four words to the left and four words to the right of the node word) in CdE:New and CdE:Old. (You might need to manually reset the SEC 1 value to just the 1900s for the CdE:Old to get the correct type count.) As we see, CdE:New provides much better data to examine the meaning and usage of words.
 

Syntactic

Because CdE:New is about 100 times as large as the 1900s portion of the CdE:Old, it provides many more tokens for lower frequency syntactic constructions. The following shows the number of tokens in the two corpora for a number of different constructions. (You might need to manually reset the SEC 1 value to just the 1900s for the CdE:Old to get the correct type count.)