Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora

WILL ALLEN is a Consultant Trainer for Netskills, Newcastle University, UK, delivering and developing internet-related trainingDAVID DENISON is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Manchester, UKSUSAN FITZMAURICE is Professor of English Language at the University of Sheffield, UKELIZABETH GORDON, University of Canterbury Christchurch, New ZealandJENNIFER HAY, University of Canterbury Christchurch, New ZealandRAYMOND HICKEY is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Essen, GermanyFRANCIS JONES is a literary translator and Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at Newcastle University, UKMARGARET MACLAGAN, University of Canterbury Christchurch, New ZealandWARREN MAGUIRE is in the final stages of his PhD research on vocalic mergers in Tyneside English at Newcastle University, UKANNELI MEURMAN-SOLIN is a Lecturer in English Philology at Helsinki University, FinlandTERTTU NEVALAINEN is Professor of English Philology at the University of Helsinki, FinlandSHANA POPLACK, University of Ottawa, CanadaHELENA RAUMOLIN-BRUNBERG is a Senior Scholar in the Research Unit for the Study of Variation, Contacts and Change in English at Helsinki University, FinlandNAOMI STANDEN is Lecturer in Chinese History at the University of Newcastle, UKANN TAYLOR is a Research Fellow at the University of York, UKLINDA VAN BERGEN is a lecturer in English Language at the University of Edinburgh, UK

• 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