Computer-Assisted Study of Early Modern English

本项目旨在建立一种实用的计算机语料库使用方法，以期弥补英语语言史研究的空白。我们最初的计划是把《赫尔辛基英语语料库》和《牛津英语词典》的光盘作为我们的材料。然而，在我们的实际研究中，我们已经扩大了我们的范围，包括各种其他材料和时期。因此，我们甚至用一首中古英语诗歌来研究词汇的特征模式，其结果可用于今后对EModE词汇的进一步研究。我们还于1996年1月25日在大坂大学举行了一次关于Ancrene Riwle的国际研讨会，邀请了东京大学的Tadao Kubouchi教授和关西大学的Yoko Wada教授作为小组成员，近50名参与者。会议论文集将于1997年晚些时候单独出版。 关于我们 具体如下：渡边英树对光盘版《牛津英语词典》进行了语料库语言学研究，从语言学家和语言学家那里获得了许多统计数据，表明其中的引文与英语研究历史之间的关系。阿恩·泽特斯滕研究了使用赫尔辛基和其他语料库研究EModE词汇和发音的有用性和局限性。他还在美国对早期美国散文材料进行了比较研究，以便从书面材料中建立发音。此外，他在过去两年中对文本语言学和EETS（Zettersten-Diensberg，即将出版）的贡献也对本项目很有帮助。在赫尔辛基语料库的EModE部分和其他赫尔辛基文本中进行了试点搜索。他还通过语料库语言学分析的数据提供了一个在中世纪英语诗歌中发现的merisms列表。少

This project is an attempt to establish a practical method of using computerized corpora in the hope to make up the lacunae in the study of the history of the English language. Our original plan was to take up the Helsinki Corpus of the English Texts and the OED on CD-ROM for our material. In our actual research, However, we have expanded our scope to include various other materials and periods. We have thus employed even a Middle English poem to investigate the characteristic patterns of vocabulary, the result of which may in the future be used for the further study of the vocabulary in the EModE.We also conducted an international symposium on Ancrene Riwle at Osaka University on January 25,1996, inviting Prof. Tadao Kubouchi of the University of Tokyo and Prof. Yoko Wada of Kansai Unuversity as panelists, with nearly 50 participants. Proceedings of the symposium will be published separately later on in 1997.The main activities of the porject members during the research term can be su … More mmarized as follows : Hideki Watanabe has made a corpus linguistic research into the OED on CD-ROM and obtained many lists of statistics indicating the relations between the citations therein from the philologists and linguists and the history of English studies.Arne Zettersten has investigated the usefulness and the limitations of using the Helsinki and other corpora for the study of EModE vocabulary and pronunciation. He has also made a comparative study in the U.S.of early American prose material for establishing pronunciation from written material. Furthermore, his contribution during the past two years to text philology and the EETS (Zettersten-Diensberg, forthcoming) has also been useful for the present project.Mitsunori Imai has investigated the function of the sentence-initial adverbial infinitive. A pilot search has been mede in the EModE section of the Helsinki Corpus and other Elizabethan texts. He has also provided a list of merisms found in a Middle English poem through a corpus linguistic analysis of the data. Less