摘要：The present paper aims to clarify the notion of 'historical corpus data' from a methodological point of view, through the analysis of examples taken from actual research practice. Relying on Kertész and Rákosi's (2012) p-model of scientific theorizing, it presents a novel conception of historical data, which rejects the use of the term 'historical data' as a synonym for occurrences found in a historical corpus. The paper concludes that historical data should be conceived of as plausible statements originating from an integrated data source. Historical corpus data, as they appear in historical linguistic research and argumentation, integrate more information than the amount of information retrievable from the corpus alone. The analysis of historical research practice suggests that the source of historical corpus data is of an integrated nature. The present paper offers a notion of historical corpus data suitable to show the uncertainties concerning the use of historical corpora and the integrated nature of the source where data used in historical research originate from
关键词：historical;data; corpus data; data sources; integration of data sources
