Computer-Assisted Study of Early Modern English

本课题旨在尝试建立一种实用的计算机语料库使用方法，以填补英语语言史研究的空白。我们最初的计划是采用赫尔辛基英语文本语料库和CD-ROM上的《牛津英语词典》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，我们于1997年举办了一次关于安克雷妮·瑞尔的国际研讨会。会议记录中对在那里进行的讨论进行了扩充和更新，以便它们能够进一步激发最近对安克雷娜·瑞尔奖学金日益增长的兴趣。1998年，我们又组织了一次研讨会，主题包括“丹麦与英国文学”、“语言接触”、“不同文化的相互交流”。在项目成员的各种活动中，可以提到以下内容：Hideki Watanabe使用CD-ROM上的OED和其他材料，对英语和贝奥武夫的历史进行了许多研究。其中一些结果已经发表在各种期刊上。Arne Zettersten研究了使用赫尔辛基语料库和其他语料库研究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。他在过去几年里对文本文献学和EETS的贡献（Zettersten-Diensberg，即将出版）对目前的项目也很有用。今井光典（Mitsunori Imai）试图找到使用计算机化语料库的实用方法，他在赫尔辛基语料库的EModE部分和其他伊丽莎白时期的文本中进行了一些试点搜索。他还通过语料库对数据进行语言分析，提供了在一首中古英语诗歌中发现的mermerism列表。

This project is an attempt to establish a practical method of using computerized corpora in the hope to fill in 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 conducted an international symposium on Ancrene Riwle in 1997. The discussions made there have been enlarged and updated in the proceedings so that they can further stimulate the recent ever-growing interest in Ancrene Riwle scholarship. In 1998 we organized another symposium covering areas such as "Denmark and English Literature", "Language Contacts", "Intercommunication of different cultures".Among various other activities of the project members can be mentioned the following: Hideki Watanabe, using the OED on CD-ROM and other material, made many researches into the history of English and Beowulf. Some of the results have already been published in various journals.Arne Zettersten investigated the usefulness and the limitations of using the Helsinki and other corpora for the study of EModE vocabulary and pronunciation. He also made a comparative study in the U.S. of early American prose material for establishing pronunciation from written material. His contribution over the past years to text philology and the EETS (Zettersten-Diensberg, forthcoming) was also useful for the present project.Mitsunori Imai, in an attempt to find practical method of using computerized corpora, made some pilot searches in the EModE section of the Helsinki Corpus and other Elizabethan texts. He also provided a list of merisms found in a Middle English poem through a corpus linguistic analysis of the data.