[Corpora-List] 19th century electronic corpora

[Martin Wynne]

I don't know of an historical corpus covering this period, but we do have in
the Oxford Text Archive many electronic texts in English from this period .
You can take a look at the website at http://ota.ahds.ac.uk and browse the
catalogue to find relevant texts. You'll need to select 'Browse' from the
menu on the left hand side of the page, then search by author, and you can
manually identify the authors which interest you.

Other corpora people may also be interested to know that you can just type
'corpus' in the Quick Search window to get a listing of the 52 corpora held
in the archive, such as the Helsinki Corpus of English Texts.

We are also planning to make it possible to search according to criteria
like date, language and text type, so that you can make your own corpus from
the texts in the archive. This is currently under development, and we will
announce it to this list when it is up and running!

Best,
Martin

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Martin Wynne
martin.wynne at ota.ahds.ac.uk
Linguistics Officer
Oxford Text Archive

Oxford University Computing Services
13 Banbury Road
Oxford
UK - OX2 6NN
Tel: +44 1865 283299
Fax: +44 1865 273275



-----Original Message-----
From: Holger Saurenbach [mailto:holgersaurenbach at yahoo.com]
Sent: 17 October 2002 15:07
To: corpora at hd.uib.no
Subject: [Corpora-List] 19th century electronic corpora


Dear linguists,

for the historical part of my planned dissertation I'm
working with the Helsinki Corpus of English Texts.
However, I'd also need a corpus that spans the period
from 1700 to the present. I know that there are
some historical corpora that would meet my needs (such
as the ARCHER or the CONCE corpora), but I have no
idea how to obtain copies of these electronic corpora
on CD Rom. The ICAME homepage only offers its
own CD-ROM, which I already have.  I hope you can help
me.

Thank you very much,
Holger Saurenbach, University of Regensburg (Germany)


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