Corpora Across the Centuries

Proceedings of the First International Colloquium on English Diachronic Corpora. St Catharine’s College Cambridge, 25-27 March 1993
Erscheinungsjahr 1994
ISBN: 978-90-5183-615-8
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 212 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 220 mm

Reihe: Language and Computers

This is the first book to give an overall survey of the ongoing projects in diachronic computerized corpora of English. The volume is based on the papers read at the First International Colloquium for English Diachronic Corpora, held at Cambridge in March 1993.
Twelve historical English corpora, completed and in preparation, are introduced in the volume. Most of these can be described as mult-genre corpora; a few concentrate either on one genre only, or on the works of a single author.
Chronologically, these corpora span more than twelve centuries, from the beginnings of documented Old English up to our days. Besides Southern British English, corpus projects on Older Scots, Early American English, and Irish English are introduced. Some of the reports contain discussions of such important questions as genre division, normalization, and problems ofsampling.
In addition to corpus compilation projects, the volume contains reports on major projects in the field of the history of English utilizing corpora and specialized software. Two linguistic atlases (Early Middle English, Older Scots), and two dictionary projects (Early Modern English and Samuel Johnson), are introduced, as well as the English Historical Thesaurus, with a separate paper on the Old English Thesaurus. The volume also contains up-to-date information on software specially developed for historical corpus work (LEXA), on different kinds of network resources, and on the Text Encoding Intiative (TEI).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Kytö, Merja

Rissanen, Matti

Wright, Susan

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. HISTORICAL CORPORA. Douglas BIBER, Edward FINEGAN, Dwight ATKINSON, Ann BECK, Dennis BURGES and Jena BURGES: The design and analysis of the ARCHER Corpus: A progress report [A Representative Corpus of Historical English Registers]. David DENISON: A corpus of late Modern English prose. Udo FRIES: ZEN - Zurich English Newspaper Corpus. Manfred GÖRLACH: Description of a corpus of 19th-century English. Raymond HICKEY: A Corpus of Irish English. Merja KYTÖ: Towards a corpus of early American English. Manfred MARKUS: The concept of ICAMET (Innsbruck Computer Archive of Middle English Texts). Anneli MEURMAN-SOLIN: The Helsinki Corpus of Older Scots. Louis T. MILIC: Is a grapheme a lexeme? And other problems of definition in the Century of Prose Corpus. Matti RISSANEN: The Helsinki Corpus of English Texts. Josef SCHMIED: The Lampeter Corpus of Early Modern English Tracts. Susan WRIGHT and Jonathan HOPE: The Cambridge-Leeds Corpus of Early Modern English (c.1600-1800). Susan WRIGHT: A communicative corpus of eighteenth century texts. Susan WRIGHT: The place of genre in the corpus. II. HISTORICAL THESAURUSES, ATLASES AND DICTIONARIES. Christian J. KAY: Historical Thesaurus of English: Progress and plans. Margaret LAING: The linguistic analysis of medieval vernacular texts: Two projects at Edinburgh. Ian LANCASHIRE: The Early Modern English Renaissance Dictionaries Corpus: An update. Anne MCDERMOTT: A corpus of source texts for Johnson's Dictionary. Jane ROBERTS: Old English Thesaurus: Progress and plans. III. ENCODING AND SOFTWARE. Raymond HICKEY: Applications of software in the compilation of corpora. Knut HOFLAND: Network resources. Stig JOHANSSON: Some aspects of the recommendations of the Text Encoding Initiative, with special reference to the encoding of language corpora.