Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence

The Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence

University of York: Ann Taylor, Anthony Warner, Susan Pintzuk
University of Helsinki: Arja Nurmi, Terttu Nevalainen

All documentation for the corpus is available on-line. The corpus is distributed by the Oxford Text Archive.

The Corpus of Early English Correspondence (CEEC) was compiled by the Sociolinguistics and Language History project team at the Department of English, University of Helsinki. The project was funded by the Academy of Finland (1993-1995) and the University of Helsinki (1996-1998). The team was led by Professor Terttu Nevalainen and the corpus compilation team included Helena Raumolin-Brunberg, Jukka Keränen, Minna Nevala, Arja Nurmi and Minna Palander-Collin. Help was provided in the compilation of the corpus by Kirsi Heikkonen and in the proof-reading by Alistair Melville-Smith, Taru Nurmi, Arja-Liisa Rossi, Reza Sanatnama, Heli Tissari and Anne Virolainen.

The part-of-speech tagging of the PCEEC was carried out by Arja Nurmi (University of Helsinki) and the syntactic annotation by Ann Taylor (University of York). The sociolinguistic information for each correspondent was provided by the Helsinki team, and by Ann Taylor, assisted by Joanne Close, at York.

Users are reminded that the texts in the corpus are subject to copyright restrictions, and that citation or excerption from these texts will be subject to the normal requirements concerning copyright holders' permission. Copyright in the annotations is held by Ann Taylor, Arja Nurmi, and the University of York. We freely grant users permission to reproduce the annotations in the course of non-commercial scholarly activity.

Citation:
Please cite the corpus in the appropriate version as follows:

Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence, parsed version. 2006. Annotated by Ann Taylor, Arja Nurmi, Anthony Warner, Susan Pintzuk, and Terttu Nevalainen. Compiled by the CEEC Project Team. York: University of York and Helsinki: University of Helsinki. Distributed through the Oxford Text Archive.

Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence, tagged version. 2006. Annotated by Arja Nurmi, Ann Taylor, Anthony Warner, Susan Pintzuk, and Terttu Nevalainen. Compiled by the CEEC Project Team. York: University of York and Helsinki: University of Helsinki. Distributed through the Oxford Text Archive.

Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence, text version. 2006. Compiled by Terttu Nevalainen, Helena Raumolin-Brunberg, Jukka Keränen, Minna Nevala, Arja Nurmi and Minna Palander-Collin, with additional annotation by Ann Taylor. Helsinki: University of Helsinki and York: University of York. Distributed through the Oxford Text Archive.

For short reference in text, please cite any version of the corpus by the abbreviation PCEEC.

Acknowledgments

The annotation of the PCEEC was funded primarily by a grant from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Board (B/RE/AN5907/APN15474). Arja Nurmi was funded by the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence funding for the Research Unit for Variation and Change in English at the Department of English, University of Helsinki.
The annotation scheme for the PCEEC was developed in close cooperation with Anthony S. Kroch and Beatrice Santorini of the University of Pennsylvania, developers of the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Early Modern English (PPCEME), for whose help and advice we are grateful.
We would like to thank the Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis, American Philosophical Society, Augustus M. Kelley Publishers, Chr Belser AG, Blackwell, the Bristol Record Society, Cambridge University Press, the Catholic Record Society, Constable and Robinson, the Early English Text Society, Institute of Historical Research (School of Advanced Study, University of London), Liverpool University Press, the Norfolk Record Society, the Northamptonshire Record Society, Oxford University Press, Peter Owen Publishers, Princeton University Press, the Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, the Royal Historical Society, the Somerset Record Society, the Southampton Record Series, the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire, University of North Carolina Press, University of Tennessee Press and Yale University Press for permission to include letters from their publications in this corpus.
Rogers, Elizabeth. The Correspondence of Sir Thomas More. Copyright (c) 1974 by Princeton University Press renewed 1974 by Elizabeth Rogers. Reprinted by permission of Princeton University Press.
Letters from John Pory, 1572-1636: The Life and Letters of a Man of Many Parts by William S. Powell. Copyright (c) 1977 by the University of North Carolina Press. Used by permission of the publisher.