Computer-Assisted Study of Early Modern English

本项目试图建立一种实用的使用计算机语料库的方法，以期填补英语语言史研究的空白。我们最初的计划是使用赫尔辛基语料库的英语文本和光盘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，包括了各种其他材料和时期。因此，我们在1997年举办了一次关于Ancrene Riwle的国际研讨会。在那里进行的讨论在会议记录中得到了扩大和更新，以便进一步激发人们最近对Ancrene Riwle学术日益增长的兴趣。1998年，我们组织了另一次研讨会，内容涉及“丹麦与英国文学”、“语言接触”、“不同文化的交流”等。在项目成员的其他活动中，可以提到以下内容：渡边英树利用光盘和其他材料，对英语和贝奥武夫的历史进行了许多研究。一些研究结果已经发表在各种期刊上。Arne Zettersten调查了使用赫尔辛基语料库和其他语料库来研究e模式词汇和发音的用处和局限性。他还在美国对早期美国散文材料进行了比较研究，以确定从书面材料中确定发音。他在过去几年中对文本文献学和EETs的贡献(Zettersten-Diensberg，即将出版)对本项目也很有用。Mitsunori Imai为了找到使用计算机化语料库的实用方法，在赫尔辛基语料库和其他伊丽莎白时代的文本中进行了一些试点搜索。他还通过对语料库的语言学分析，列出了一首中古英语诗歌中的分词。

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.