Corpus of Early Modern English Statutes 1491-1707

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Corpus of Early Modern English Statutes 1491-1707

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Englannin lakikielen korpus 1491-1707

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http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:lb-2016082301

Statutes and proclamations of the British parliament, the majority of which are from the 16th and the 17th century. There are two versions of the corpus: one consisting of the transcripts of the statutes and proclamations in their original linguistic form and another one containing the transcripts normalized according to the present-day orthography (all in all 54 rtf and txt files).

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Englannin lakikielen korpus sisältää Britannian parlamentin säädöksiä ja proklamaatioita lähinnä 1500- ja 1600-luvuilta. Korpuksesta on kaksi versiota: alkuperäisen kieliasun mukainen litteraatti sekä nykyortografian mukaiseksi normalisoitu versio (yhteensä 54 rtf- ja txt-muotoista tiedostoa).

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Under Negotiation

Licence

Under Negotiation

IPR Holder

Anu Lehto

Contact Person

Anu Lehto

text

Monolingual text corpusLanguages

English

Linguality

Linguality type: Monolingual

Size

54 Files

180,000 Words

Modalities

Written Language

Time Coverage

1491-1707

Metadata

Created: 08/23/2016

Last Updated: 08/23/2016

Metadata Language: English, Finnish (en, fi)

Metadata Creator

Imre Bartis

Documentation

Lehto, Anu (to be published in 2016). Binomials and multinominals in Early Modern English parliamentary acts. In Joanna Kopaczyk ja Hans Sauer (eds.), Binomials in the History of English: Fixed and Flexible. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Lehto, Anu. 2015. The Genre of Early Modern English Statutes: Complexity in Historical Legal Language. (Doctoral dissertation) Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique de Helsinki.

Lehto, Anu (unpublished). Lexical bundles in Early Modern and Present-day English parliamentary acts. In Kopaczyk, Joanna ja Jukka Tyrkkö (eds.), Patterns in text: Corpus-driven methods and applications. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Lehto, Anu. 2013. Complexity and genre conventions: Text structure and coordination in Early Modern English proclamations. In Jucker, Andreas H., Daniela Landert, Annina Seiler ja Nicole Studer-Joho (eds.), Meaning in the History of English: Words and texts in context. (Studies in Language Companion Series, 148.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 233–256.

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