The English language of the north-west in the late Modern English period: a Corpus of late 18c Prose
| Title | The English language of the north-west in the late Modern English period: a Corpus of late 18c Prose [Electronic resource] |
| Editor | van Bergen, Linda (ed.); Denison, David (ed.); Soliva, Joana (ed.) |
| Availability | As this resource is restricted in some way, you will have to apply for approval to get a copy. |
| Languages | English |
| Editorial Practice | Encoding format: HTML 4.0 |
| OTA keywords |
Linguistic corpora Corpus Letters |
| LC keywords | English language--Written English |
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| Creation Date | 2003-04 |
| Source Description | The John Rylands University Library Special Collection Guide: Legh Of Lyme Muniments John Rylands University Manchester: 1999 |
| Notes |
Mode of access: Online. OTA website Title proper taken from AHDS Catalogue Form The date range is 1761-90. About 300,000 words have been transcribed and corrected. The corpus is currently in two forms: plain text with COCOA-style annotations, like the Helsinki corpus and HTML. The files are extended (8-bit) Ascii (ANSI/Windows default coding), and the text is coded as far as possible according to the conventions used in the Helsinki Corpus, that is, with COCOA-style brackets giving information on writer, date, page breaks, etc, enclosed within carets. Data derived from collection(s) held at The John Rylands University Library: http://rylibweb.man.ac.uk/data2/spcoll/legh/ Biber, Douglas and Edward Finegan. A Representative Corpus of Historical English Registers (ARCHER). Available at: http://www.eng.helsinki.fi/varieng/team1/1 1 4 3 archer.htm on 18 June 2003. Denison, David. 1994. A Corpus of late Modern English Prose. Available at: http://www.art.man.ac.uk/english/staff/dd/late18c.htm on 18 March 2004. |
