The law and corpus linguistics movement shares many of the commitments of experimental jurisprudence. Both are concerned with testing intuitions about legal concepts through the lens of empirical evidence gathered through experimentation. Though often discussed in the context of a given case or legal problem, linguistic evidence from legal corpora can help provide content to otherwise indeterminate concepts in the law.

Using language evidence from linguistic corpora, we can begin to have more meaningful conversations about what concepts like ordinary meaning, ambiguity, and speech community might actually mean and make progress on the boundaries of these concepts and their implications for legal interpretation. And, because corpora are constructed from linguistic utterances made in natural linguistic settings, they can provide an important check and means of triangulation for experimental jurisprudence claims that are often premised on survey data.