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1. Tesouro Informatizado da Lingua Galega provides two basic search types:

• Headword search: this search type combines all inflected forms of the headword (lexical item), along with all its orthographical or phonetic variants, in a single search. For example, a search for the headword árbore will return results covering every occurrence of the word árbore whether in the singular of plural, plus its variants arbre, álbore, albre, árbol and their plurals. This is the default search type. When you start typing a drop-down list will show all the headwords that begin with the letters typed.
• Word form search: this search type only looks for the exact form you specify, so that you can locate a specific inflected form or spelling or phonetic variant. So for example, a search for the word form abidueira will return results only covering occurences of that precise form in the corpus, not of the plural (abidueiras), nor other variants (such as abedoeira, bedueira, bidueira, bidoeira etc.).

2. You can also carry out advanced searches to specify part of speech, the chronological period to be covered or the presence of a given word form or headword in the immediate context of occurrences. This last-named option is especially useful for locating multi-verbal items, collocations and so on.

3. Whether your search is one of the two basic types (by headword or by word form) or an advanced search, by default search results will be displayed sorted in forward chronological order (from oldest to most recent). However, you can change the display to show results in reverse chronological order, or sort them in forward (A to Z) or reverse (Z to A) alphabetical order of any of the keys used to tag corpus items.

4. In addition to information about the location of occurrences of search items and their immediate context (you can enlarge the context by clicking on the symbol), the application also provides a brief profile of the query results, including the total number of occurrences, the number of corpus items in which the search item occurs and a graph showing its chronological distribution.

5. You can download a table displaying the results of your query. The tabe will be limited to the first 5000 records, counting from the first record on the active page.