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，以期弥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，我们甚至使用了一首中古英语诗歌来研究词汇的特征模式，其结果可能在未来用于进一步研究EmodE中的词汇。我们还于1996年1月25日在大阪大学举办了一次关于Ancrene Riwle的国际研讨会，邀请了东京大学的Tadao KuBouchi教授和关西大学的和田洋子教授作为小组成员，有近50人参加。研讨会的会议记录将于1997年晚些时候单独发表。研究期间，项目成员的主要活动可以是su…更概括地说：渡边秀树对光盘版的《牛津英语词典》进行了语料库语言学研究，获得了许多统计表，表明了其中来自语言学家和语言学家的引用与英语研究历史之间的关系。Arne Zettersten调查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，以便从书面材料中确定发音。此外，他在过去两年中对语篇语言学和EETs(Zettersten-Diensberg，即将出版)的贡献也对本项目有用。Mitsunori Imai研究了句子开头的状语不定式的功能。已经在赫尔辛基语料库的电子模式部分和其他伊丽莎白时代的文本中进行了试点搜索。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。较少

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