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.
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