SFB 538 Corpora: H5

Multilingualism, Variation, and Linguistic Universals

Hiberno English

Description: Non-standard written texts of older Hiberno English (letters, diary notes etc.) from the 17th - 19th centuries.

Languages: Hiberno English

Conventions/Format: ASCII plain text with COCOA markup, plans for the corpus to be converted to TEI.

Size: Approx. 1,000 texts, approx. 500,000 words.

Status: Compilation ongoing.

Access: Please contact Dr. Lukas Pietsch.