RE: [Corpora-List] 19th century electronic corpora

From: Martin Wynne (martin.wynne@ota.ahds.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Oct 21 2002 - 13:58:37 MET DST

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    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@ota.ahds.ac.uk
    Linguistics Officer
    Oxford Text Archive

    Oxford University Computing Services
    13 Banbury Road
    Oxford
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    Tel: +44 1865 283299
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    -----Original Message-----
    From: Holger Saurenbach [mailto:holgersaurenbach@yahoo.com]
    Sent: 17 October 2002 15:07
    To: corpora@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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