Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora, Volume 1 Synchronic Databases

A range of electronic corpora has become increasingly accessible via the WWW and CD-ROM. This development coincided with improvements in the standards governing the collecting, encoding and archiving of such data. Less attention, however, has been paid to making other types of digital data available. This is especially true of that which one might describe as 'unconventional', namely, dialects, child language and bilingual databases. This book is a first step toward developing similar standards for enriching and preserving these neglected resources.

JOAN C. BEAL is Professor of English Language and Director of the National Centre for English Cultural Tradition, University of Sheffield, UK. Her recent publications include English in Modern Times and Language and Region.

KAREN P. CORRIGAN is a Personal Reader in Linguistics and English Language at Newcastle University, UK. She has held lectureships at University College, Dublin and the Universities of Edinburgh and York, and a Leverhulme Trust Fellowship. She recently published Syntax and Variation (with Leonie Cornips).

HERMANN L. MOISL teaches and researches at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK where he is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and English Language. He has held British and Canada Council Fellowships and has published widely.