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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