amount vs corpus

amount

noun
  • A quantity or volume. 

  • The number (the sum) of elements in a set. 

  • The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English). 

verb
  • To be the same as or equivalent to. 

  • To total or evaluate. 

corpus

noun
  • A body, a collection. 

  • Such a collection in form of an electronic database used for linguistic analyses. 

  • A collection of writings, often on a specific topic, of a specific genre, from a specific demographic or a particular author, etc. 

How often have the words amount and corpus occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )