A descriptive approach to computerised English historical corpora in the 21<sup>st</sup> century

Authors

  • Nila Vázquez
  • Laura Esteban Segura
  • Teresa Marqués Aguado
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6018/ijes/2011/2/149671
Keywords: historical corpora, Old English, Middle English, Modern English, diachrony, annotated corpus, lemmatisation

Abstract

Historical corpora offer many potentialities for linguistic research. Thus, the present article provides an overview of the major English historical corpora compiled or being compiled both in Spain and abroad. They include different types such as tagged and parsed corpora, and their main features will be outlined. As for the organisation of the article, after the introductory section, the historical corpora created abroad will be presented. Then, those being constructed in Spain (Coruña, Las Palmas, Málaga, Salamanca, Santiago and Sevilla) will be discussed. Some final remarks and the references close the article.

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Author Biographies

Nila Vázquez

is Lecturer in History of the English Language at the University of Murcia (Spain) where she teaches History of English and Varieties of English. Her research interests include Historical Linguistics and Sociolinguistics, Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing, where she has published extensively: books such as Creation and Use of Historical English Corpora in Spain (Cambridge Scholars, forthcoming), The Tale of Gamelyn of the Canterbury Tales: An Annotated Edition (The Edwin Mellen, 2009) and Editing Middle English Texts in the 21st Century: New Techniques and Approaches. IJES 5.2. (Editum, 2005) and articles in leading journals such as Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, Variants, Journal of the Early Book Society and Babel.

Laura Esteban Segura

is Lecturer at the Department of English Philology of the University of Murcia (Spain). Her main research interests lie in the history of the English language, textual editing, palaeography/codicology, manuscript studies and translation. The more specialist aspects of her research focus on the study of unedited medical manuscripts in Middle English. Dr. Esteban-Segura has published in specialised journals such as Linguistica e Filologia (2005), SELIM (2007), English Studies (2010) and Neuphilologische Mitteilungen (2011).

Teresa Marqués Aguado

lectures at the University of Murcia (Spain), where she teaches English language as well as some undergraduate courses on Historical Linguistics. Her research interests lie within this last field, together with Palaeography, Codicology and Manuscript Studies. She has published in journals such as English Studies, and has collaborated in several volumes centred on her field of research, such as Textual Healing: Studies in Medieval English Medical, Scientific and Technical Texts or Benvenutus Grassus’ On the well-proven art of the eye. Practica Oculorum & De probatissima arte oculorum. Synoptic Edition and Philological Studies (both in Peter Lang), as well as The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics (in Wiley-Blackwell).
Published
01-12-2011
How to Cite
Vázquez, N., Esteban Segura, L., & Marqués Aguado, T. (2011). A descriptive approach to computerised English historical corpora in the 21<sup>st</sup> century. International Journal of English Studies, 11(2), 119–139. https://doi.org/10.6018/ijes/2011/2/149671
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Vol. 11 No. 2 (2011): New Developments in Corpus Linguistics
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