Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora: Volume 2: Diachronic Databases

by J. Beal (Editor), K. Corrigan (Editor), H. Moisl (Editor)

Overview

A range of electronic corpora has become accessible via the WWW and CD-ROM. This coincides with improvements in standards governing the collecting, encoding and archiving of such data. This book develops similar standards for enriching and preserving 'unconventional' data': the fragmentary texts and voices left to us as accidents of history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349522354
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2007
Edition description:	1st ed. 2007
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

WILL ALLEN is a Consultant Trainer for Netskills, Newcastle University, UK, delivering and developing internet-related training DAVID DENISON is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Manchester, UK SUSAN FITZMAURICE is Professor of English Language at the University of Sheffield, UK ELIZABETH GORDON, University of Canterbury Christchurch, New Zealand JENNIFER HAY, University of Canterbury Christchurch, New Zealand RAYMOND HICKEY is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Essen, Germany FRANCIS JONES is a literary translator and Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at Newcastle University, UK MARGARET MACLAGAN, University of Canterbury Christchurch, New Zealand WARREN MAGUIRE is in the final stages of his PhD research on vocalic mergers in Tyneside English at Newcastle University, UK ANNELI MEURMAN-SOLIN is a Lecturer in English Philology at Helsinki University, Finland TERTTU NEVALAINEN is Professor of English Philology at the University of Helsinki, Finland SHANA POPLACK, University of Ottawa, Canada HELENA RAUMOLIN-BRUNBERG is a Senior Scholar in the Research Unit for the Study of Variation, Contacts and Change in English at Helsinki University, Finland NAOMI STANDEN is Lecturer in Chinese History at the University of Newcastle, UK ANN TAYLOR is a Research Fellow at the University of York, UK LINDA VAN BERGEN is a lecturer in English Language at the University of Edinburgh, UK

Table of Contents

List of Tables     vii
List of Figures     viii
Foreword   Shana Poplack     x
Notes on the Contributors     xv
List of Abbreviations     xviii
Taming Digital Voices and Texts: Models and Methods for Handling Unconventional Diachronic Corpora   Joan C. Beal   Karen P. Corrigan   Hermann L. Moisl     1
A Linguistic 'Time Capsule': The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English   Will Allen   Joan C. Beal   Karen P. Corrigan   Warren Maguire   Hermann L. Moisl     16
Questions of Standardization and Representativeness in the Development of Social Networks-Based Corpora: The Story of the Network of Eighteenth-Century English Texts   Susan Fitzmaurice     49
The ONZE Corpus   Elizabeth Gordon   Margaret Maclagan   Jennifer Hay     82
Tracking Dialect History: A Corpus of Irish English   Raymond Hickey     105
The Manuscript-Based Diachronic Corpus of Scottish Correspondence   Anneli Meurman-Solin     127
Historical Sociolinguistics: The Corpus of Early English Correspondence   Helena Raumolin-Brunberg   Terttu Nevalainen     148
Revealing Alternatives: Online Comparative Translations of Interlinked ChineseHistorical Texts   Naomi Standen   Francis Jones     172
The York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Prose   Ann Taylor     196
A Corpus of late Eighteenth-Century Prose   Linda van Bergen   David Denison     228
Index     247

Editorial Reviews

'A unique collection of essays on corpus projects that are fundamentally different from the wide range of general reference corpora of standard English(es)' - Joybrato Mukherjee, English World-Wide

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