The Lampeter Corpus of Early Modern English Tracts (LC)

The Lampeter Corpus of Early Modern English Tracts is a collection of texts on various subject matter published between 1640 and 1740 – a time that is marked by the rise of mass publication, the development of a public discourse in many areas of everyday life and, last but not least, the standardisation of British English.

Project leader: Prof. Dr. Josef Schmied
Time of compilation: 1994–1999
Size: 1,193,385 words
Language: English
Number of texts/samples: 120 texts
Types of texts: pamphlets
Period: 1640–1740
Released: 1999
Project home page: http://khnt.hit.uib.no/icame/manuals/LAMPETER/LAMPHOME.HTM

Reference lines and copyright

The Lampeter Corpus of Early Modern English Tracts. 1999. Compiled by Josef Schmied, Claudia Claridge, and Rainer Siemund. (In: ICAME Collection of English Language Corpora (CD-ROM), Second Edition, eds. Knut Hofland, Anne Lindebjerg, Jørn Thunestvedt, The HIT Centre, University of Bergen, Norway.)

The copyright of the corpus and the electronic version of all the texts contained in it lies with the compilers of the corpus, namely Josef Schmied, Claudia Claridge, and Rainer Siemund.

Manual

Claridge, C. "Life is ruled and governed by opinion": The Lampeter Corpus of Early Modern English Tracts. Manual of Information. 1999/2003. ICAME Collection.

Available online (pdf)

Compilers

Josef Schmied, Claudia Claridge, and Rainer Siemund

Availability

ICAME; Oxford Text Archive

CoRD Entry submitted on May 20, 2009 by Prof. Dr. Claudia Claridge.
Information for the entry was edited by Claudia Claridge.