Lexicons of Early Modern English

James Knight jlk at 3GECKOS.NET
Thu Jun 1 22:10:34 UTC 2006


Forwarded to me by a colleague -- of possible interest to ADS-L readers.

Cheers,

-jk

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>From: Lexicons of Early Modern English [mailto:journals at utpress.utoronto.ca]
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>University of Toronto Press, in collaboration with Ian Lancashire
>and the University of Toronto Library, is pleased to announce the launch of
>Lexicons of Early Modern English at
><http://leme.library.utoronto.ca/>leme.library.utoronto.ca.
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>Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME) gives scholars unprecedented
>access to early books and manuscripts that document the English
>language from the beginning of printing in England to 1702. With
>over 150 monolingual, bilingual, and polyglot dictionaries and
>glossaries (in which either source or target language is English),
>as well as linguistic treatises, and encyclopedic or topical works,
>LEME provides exciting opportunities for research in many fields:
>literature, linguistics, law, medicine, science, and society. A
>half-million word-entries devised by contemporary speakers of Early
>Modern English describe the meaning of words, and their equivalents
>in languages such as French, Italian, Spanish, Latin, Greek, Hebrew,
>and other tongues encountered then in Europe, America, and Asia.
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>There are two versions of LEME, public and licensed.
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>The public version, which will be available by July 1, 2006, serves
>general readers and schools. It allows anyone, anywhere, to do
>simple searches on the entire multilingual lexical database.
>Bibliographical entries document all searchable texts. Search
>queries can be restricted to one or more individual works in LEME,
>and up to one-hundred word-entries in which a queried word occurs
>may be retrieved. Results of searches may be held in a notepad for
>printing or e-mailing. Context-sensitive help is available. Both
>versions of LEME have twice as many word-entries as the Early Modern
>English Dictionaries Database (EMEDD), which the public version of
>LEME is intended to replace.
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>The licensed version of LEME, already available, meets the advanced
>research and teaching needs of colleges and universities. This
>version is designed as a full-featured scholarly resource for
>original research into the entire lexical content of Early Modern
>English. LEME supplements the Oxford English Dictionary with new
>information about word-forms, their senses, their membership in
>professional registers, their chronological limits for usage, and
>their status (e.g., is this a hard word, or a term in the mother
>tongue?). The licensed version also offers advanced retrieval
>options, such as proximity and Boolean queries, regular expressions,
>and restrictable searches by date, author, title, subject, genre,
>language, and position in the word-entry. The size of search
>contexts is adjustable. A full bibliographical index to over 1,200
>lexical works in the period may be searched by date, author, title,
>subject, and genre. There is a biographical index. Three browsable
>word-lists are provided: one to editorially lemmatized headwords in
>word-entries, a second to word-forms in LEME's lexical texts, and a
>third (available to EEBO/TCP subscribers) to 2.1 million word-forms
>in over 14,000 texts in the period.
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>To set up a 2-month trial subscription, please contact Anne Marie
>Corrigan at
><file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/lancashi/Local%20Settings/Temp/acorrigan@utpress.utoronto.ca>acorrigan at utpress.utoronto.ca.
>If others at your institution would be interested in accessing LEME,
>ask your librarian to set up a trial for your institution.
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>Visit LEME at <http://leme.library.utoronto.ca/>leme.library.utoronto.ca
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James Knight, MLIS
jlk at 3geckos.net
Friday Harbor, WA

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