Background

For the purposes of this project, we intend to collect a meaningful corpus in the sense that it both corroborates existing scholarly knowledge about some major aspects of the evolution of linguistics and its metalanguage in English and provides new insights about facets of this evolution that have not been observed previously. For these reasons, we aim at an open corpus, the composition of which may change over time also benefitting from future external contributions. The use of such a corpus will be multifold. This tool will help raise awareness of the significance of linguistics and philology in multilingual Europe, advance our knowledge of contact, exchange and conflict between the linguistic and cultural identities of Europe. The corpus is intended as a scholarly and didactic tool, and the terminology extracted from it will provide data of interest for open source dictionaries and lexical repertoires.