Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora

Volume 2: Diachronic Databases
2007. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-4039-4367-5
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 147 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 445 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beal, J.

Corrigan, K.

Moisl, H.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Denison, David

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors Foreword: S.Poplack Taming Digital Voices and Texts: Models and Methods for Handling Unconventional Diachronic Corpora; J.C.Beal, K.P.Corrigan & H.L.Moisl A Linguistic "Time Capsule": The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English; W.Allen, J.C.Beal, K.P.Corrigan, W.Maguire & H.L.Moisl Questions of Standardization and Representativeness in the Development of Social Networks Based Corpora: The Story of the Network of Eighteenth-Century English Texts; S.M.Fitzmaurice The ONZE Corpus; E.Gordon, M.Maclagan & J.Hay Tracking Dialect History: A Corpus of Irish-English; R.Hickey The Manuscript-Based Diachronic Corpus of Scottish Correspondence; A.Meurman-Solin Historical Sociolinguistics: The Corpus of Early English Correspondence; H.Raumolin-Brunberg & T.Nevalainen Revealing Alternatives: On-Line Comparative Translations of Interlinked Chinese Historical Texts; N.Standen & F.Jones The York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Prose; A.Taylor A Corpus of Late Eighteenth-Century Prose; L.van Bergen & D.Denison Index

Über Autor(innen)

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