[Corpora-List] Available on request: New Dialogic 13th-14th Century French Corpus

[Larrivee, Pierre]

Dear all

We are delighted to announce the launch of the first version of the corpus "Narrations et Dialogues en français ancien:  The Anglo-Norman Year Books Corpus" (ANYBC).
     It presents 15 digitised volumes of Year Books from the end of the 13th to the end of the 14th century. Totalling nearly 1.5 million words, they represent court hearings in words that the student writer would have spoken had they been responsible for pleading the cases presented. Evidencing a variety of French aligned to the continental one, they are a unique resource in offering narrative and dialogue passages that stand as interactive communication in medieval time. This allows answers to be found to questions of historical syntax, pragmatics and sociolinguistics.
     Resulting from the Leverhulme funded Research Network Cycles of Grammaticalization (http://www1.aston.ac.uk/lss/research/research-projects/cycles-of-grammaticalization/), the ANYBC could be assembled thanks to the support of the Rolls Society, the Ames Foundation, the Seldom Society and the British Museum. It is available free of charge for research purposes, on request to Pierre Larrivée (P.Larrivee at Aston.ac.uk)

Pierre


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