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American Representative Corpus of Historical English Registers |
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Original coordinator: Prof. Douglas Biber at the University of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff; currently cooperating with Prof. Mair and Kortmann from University of Freiburg |
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1.7 millon words |
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various textual genres in British and American English; ~ 1650s - ? |
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../ Corpus of Early English Correspondence (CEEC) |
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Sociolinguistics and Language History project team at the Department of English, University of Helsinki |
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2.7 million words |
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Personal letters written in England between c.1410 and 1680 |
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Restricted to research; refer to CEECS for general access |
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Since 2000 work has been under way to extend the corpus to the eighteenth century. Tagging of the corpus was finished in 2004 and parsing is continuing into 2005. |
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../ CME - Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse |
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HTI - University of Michigan, U.S. |
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54 texts |
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Collection of Middle English texts provided by the University of Michigan and the Oxford Text Archive |
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Free; Search possible in individual or groups of books; Conduct simple/boolean/proximity searches |
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SGML Markup according to the TEI guidelines |
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../ Corpus del Español |
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Mark Davies, Brigham Young University |
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100 million words |
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heterogeneous; corpus includes fictional, non-fictional and oral texts; 1200s to 1900s |
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An elaborate online search is available that allows complex search patterns in individual parts of the corpus or in the entire corpus |
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This service is freely available. |
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../ A Historical Corpus of the Welsh language 1500-1850 |
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Department of Linguistics, University of Cambridge |
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420,000 words |
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heterogeneous; 30 texts, sample size ~15,000 words; 1500-1850 |
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The texts are available for download; An online search function is also provided |
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XML encoded |
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| ../ MEMEM - Michigan Early Modern English Materials |
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Richard W. Bailey, Jay L. Robinson, James W. Downer, with Patricia V. Lehman. |
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50,000 records |
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"The Materials consist of citations collected for the modal verbs and certain other English words for the Early Modern English Dictionary." |
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Free online access through a search interface is available |
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../ Newdigate Newsletters |
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Philip Hines, JR. |
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2100 manuscript newsletters in the Newdigate series |
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"A multi-genre corpus, with a thousand-year timespan from the earliest documents to 1710."; 13 January 1673/4 to 29 September 1715 |
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The Diachronic part is available on the ICAME CD-Rom; check out the online sample. |
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../ Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English - PPCME2 |
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University of Pennsylvania, U.S. |
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1.3 million words; 55 text samples |
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prose text samples of Middle English; |
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Both the corpus and the software 'Corpus Search' are available on CD-Rom |
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syntactic annotation |
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Historical Corpora