Corpus tools for historical English studies

Members of the PELCRA team have been involved in the creation of various corpus-based tools and resources for the study of Old, Middle and Early/Late Modern English:

VARIOE morphological dictionary for YCOE

An auxiliary tool for the YCOE corpus users. There are two basic functions of the dictionary: a) it allows to identify a lemma on the basis of its word form (‘enter a word form to check its lemma’) and b) it lists all the word forms of a given lemma attested in the YCOE corpus (‘enter a lemma to check all its forms’) and generates a line for a CorpusSearch2 query file that you can copy and paste into your query in order to limit your syntactic search to forms of a specific lemma. VARIOE-morph

Based on the VARIOE database, the team published A Frequency Dictionary of Old English Prose: for learners of Old English and historical linguists FDOEP

VARIOE dictionary of Old English collocations

A combinatorial dictionary that allows users to generate a number of collocation patterns for a given Old English lemma (e.g. a list of all adjectives preceding a given noun, a list of all verbs co-occurring with this noun, a list of all prepositions co-occurring with this noun, etc.) or to browse collocations belonging to a specific pattern. After clicking on a collocation, you may look at concordances and examine its use in context. Please remember that the dictionary is based on linear proximity between given parts of speech and intervening elements are possible. VARIOE-collocations

MELange
LLEMETIZER