Corpus of Early English Medical Writing (CEEM)

The Corpus of Early English Medical Writing is a corpus of English vernacular medical writing. Consisting of three diachronically divided subcorpora, the corpus covers the entire history of medical writing in English from the earliest manuscripts to the beginning of modern clinical medicine.

Time of compilation: 1995–
Language: English (OE to LModE)
Genre: Medicine
Number of texts/samples: 750 (estimated) See individual subcorpora.
Word count: c. 3,75 million (estimated). See individual subcorpora
Period: 1375–1800

Reference line and Copyright

See individual subcorpora

Compilers

MEMT

Project leaders: Professors Irma Taavitsainen and Päivi Pahta

Compilers: Irma Taavitsainen (University of Helsinki), Päivi Pahta (University of Tampere), Martti Mäkinen (University of Stavanger)

Other team members: Carla Suhr, Maura Ratia, Turo Hiltunen, Alpo Honkapohja, Jukka Tyrkkö (all University of Helsinki), Minna Vihla

Student assistants: Ville Hyvönen, Nora Leskinen, Paula Korhonen

EMEMT

Project leaders: Professors Irma Taavitsainen and Päivi Pahta

Compilers: Irma Taavitsainen (University of Helsinki), Päivi Pahta (University of Tampere), Martti Mäkinen (Svenska handelshögskolan), Turo Hiltunen, Ville Marttila, Maura Ratia, Carla Suhr, Jukka Tyrkkö (University of Helsinki)

Other team members: Anu Lehto, Alpo Honkapohja, Raisa Oinonen

Student assistants: Johanna Lahti, Jukka Tuominen, Petteri Valkonen

LMEMT

Project leader: Professor Irma Taavitsainen

Compilers: Irma Taavitsainen, Turo Hiltunen, Ville Marttila, Anu Lehto, Raisa Oinonen, Päivi Pahta (University of Tampere), Carla Suhr, Jukka Tyrkkö

File format

All text extracts are stored as individual files in rich text format (.rtf). See transciption and annotation On EMEMT CD-Rom, text files are also available in plain text format.

Availability

MEMT: Published on CD-ROM by John Benjamins in 2005. Available for in-house use at VARIENG.

EMEMT: Published on CD-ROM by John Benjamins in 2010. Available for in-house consultation by arrangement.

LMEMT: To be announced. Available for in-house consultation by arrangement. Please contact the compilers directly.