Example of a header

The example below is a document header from the Helsinki Corpus. On the left-hand of the page is the COCOA format header, while on the right-hand side we have glossed each code for you (e.g. we have said that the code "N" represents the name of the text.) An "X" indicates that the information for that code was either irrelevant or unavailable.

<B CEPRIV1>		Short descriptive code
<Q E1 XX CORP EBUEAM>	Text identifier
<N LET TO HUSBAND>	Name of text
<A BEAUMONT ELIZABETH>	Author's name
<C E1>			Sub-period
<O 1500-1570>		Date of original
<M X>			Date of manuscript
<K X>			Contemporaneity of original and manuscript
<D ENGLISH>		Dialect
<V PROSE>		Verse or prose
<T LET PRIV>		Text type
<G X>			Relationship to foreign original
<F X>			Language of foreign original
<W WRITTEN>		Relationship to spoken language
<X FEMALE>		Sex of author
<Y X>			Age of author
<H HIGH>		Author's social status
<U X>			Audience description
<E INT UP>		Participant relationship
<J INTERACTIVE>		Interactive/non-interactive
<I INFORMAL>		Formal/informal
<Z X>			Prototypical text category
<S SAMPLE X>		Sample

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