Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora

JOAN C. BEAL is Professor of English Language and Director of the National Centre for English Cultural Tradition, University of Sheffield, UK. Her recent publications include English in Modern Times and Language and Region. KAREN P. CORRIGAN is a Personal Reader in Linguistics and English Language at Newcastle University, UK. She has held lectureships at University College, Dublin and the Universities of Edinburgh and York, and a Leverhulme Trust Fellowship. She recently published Syntax and Variation (with Leonie Cornips). HERMANN L. MOISL teaches and resear

• Notes on Contributors Foreword: S.Poplack Taming Digital Voices and Texts: Models and Methods for Handling Unconventional Diachronic Corpora; J.C.Beal, K.P.Corrigan & H.L.Moisl A Linguistic "Time Capsule": The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English; W.Allen, J.C.Beal, K.P.Corrigan, W.Maguire & H.L.Moisl Questions of Standardization and Representativeness in the Development of Social Networks Based Corpora: The Story of the Network of Eighteenth-Century English Texts; S.M.Fitzmaurice The ONZE Corpus; E.Gordon, M.Maclagan & J.Hay Tracking Dialect History: A Corpus of Irish-English; R.Hickey The Manuscript-Based Diachronic Corpus of Scottish Correspondence; A.Meurman-Solin Historical Sociolinguistics: The Corpus of Early English Correspondence; H.Raumolin-Brunberg & T.Nevalainen Revealing Alternatives: On-Line Comparative Translations of Interlinked Chinese Historical Texts; N.Standen & F.Jones The York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Prose; A.Taylor A Corpus of Late Eighteenth-Century Prose; L.van Bergen & D.Denison Index

'A unique collection of essays on corpus projects that are fundamentally different from the wide range of general reference corpora of standard English(es)' - Joybrato Mukherjee, English World-Wide