Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Early Modern English

Citation:
Kroch, Anthony, Beatrice Santorini, and Lauren Delfs. 2004.
Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Early Modern English.
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/hist-corpora/PPCEME-RELEASE-1/

Acknowledgments

We are grateful to the following institutions and individuals, some of whom have made this project possible and all of whom have made it much better than it otherwise would have been.

The National Endowment for the Humanities for NEH Grant PA 23382-99, "Creating an electronic parsed corpus of Early Modern English."
The National Science Foundation for NSF Grant BCS 99-05488, "The emergence of Modern English syntax."
The users of the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English (PPCME2) for their financial support in purchasing the corpus.
Our colleagues at the University of Helsinki: Prof. Terttu Nevalainen, director of the Helsinki Corpus project, and Prof. Matti Rissanen, the project's emeritus director, for permission to use the Early Modern English part of the Helsinki Corpus of English; Prof. Nevalainen and Dr. Helena Raumolin-Brunberg for help with sample selection and for comments on our documentation of the samples; and Dr. Merya Kytö for information concerning the source of various Helsinki Corpus samples.
Beth Randall for writing the CorpusSearch program, especially for adding the corpus revision functions that support corpus construction.
Ann Taylor for help in understanding the PPCME2 annotation guidelines and adapting them to modern English.
Tom McFadden for alerting us to errors and inconsistencies in the corpus and for writing a suite of Perl scripts that make it easier to conduct searches in a systematic way.
The students at the University of Pennsylvania who used draft versions of the corpus for research projects and alerted us to problems and errors.
Amy Forsyth, the administrative coordinator of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, and Glynis Platt of the University Library at the University of Manchester for their help in obtaining an elusive text.
The staff in the Rare Book Collection of Van Pelt Library at the University of Pennsyvania, especially John Pollack.

Conditions of use

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