Re: Corpora: History of corpora

Daniel Ridings (ridings@svenska.gu.se)
Fri, 26 Feb 1999 21:13:55 +0100 (CET)

Funny, I don't see any classicists. A corpus is nothing new, but in the
last 30 years new way of working with them (methods) have appeared.

You might start with Solon. Everything after him provides the definition
of Classical Greek. Alexander the Great defines the Hellenistic Corpus.
We're not real sure how to deal with "kejsartiden" (I mean, who wrote the
New Testament), so we start a new period when Caesar destroyed these
corpora. Then we get Constantine, with the start of Byzantine times.

Eventually, around 1950 "modern" science rediscovers "positivism" and we
get a whole slew of opportunistic researchers claiming to be
"empiricists". Let them have their day. History won't.

:)

--
Daniel Ridings


On Fri, 26 Feb 1999 cendon@wamba.cpd.uva.es wrote:


> Thanks for all the informative replies to my question about
> The history of corpora.
> 
> Thanks for this information are due to:
> 
> Ramesh Krishnamurthy ramesh@clg.bham.ac.uk
> Antoinette Renouf ant@rdues.liv.ac.uk
> Tony Rose tgr@cre.canon.co.uk
> Alan Morrison info@ota.ahds.ac.uk
> Geoffrey Sampson geoffs@cogs.susx.ac.uk
> Andrew Harley aharley@cup.cam.ac.uk
> Knut Hofland Knut.Hofland@hit.uib.no
> 
> 
> 
>