Zurich English Newspaper Corpus
The Zurich English Newspaper Corpus (ZEN) is a collection of early English newspaper texts from the late 17th and 18th centuries. It is a corpus specifically designed for linguists who want to study the history of the English language. The Zen Corpus mirrors the extraordinary diversification of newspapers in the 18th century. It includes a wide variety of (mainly) London newspapers, selected in 10-year intervals from 1661 onwards, covering most of the text-classes available (foreign news, home news, shipping news, crime, births, weddings, death notices, lost and found, proclamations, advertisements). It excludes lists of names, lists of stocks, and poetry.
Project leader: Udo Fries
Time of compilation: 1993–2003
Size: 1.6 million words
Language: English
Number of texts: 349 newspaper issues
Period: 1661–1791
Released: 2004
Funding: Stiftung für Wissenschaftliche Forschung, Universität Zürich;
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds
Project home page: http://es-zen.unizh.ch
Reference lines and copyright
ZEN, Zurich English Newspaper CorpusVersion 1.0. English Department of the University of Zurich. http://es-zen.unizh.ch.
Manual
Lehmann, Hans Martin, Caren auf dem Keller, Beni Ruef. 2006. Zen Corpus 1.0. In: Roberta Facchinetti and Matti Rissanen (eds.), Corpus-based Studies of Diachronic English. 135-155. (Linguistic Insights 31.) Bern: Peter Lang.
Annotation
A description is given in:
Lehmann, Hans Martin, Caren auf dem Keller, Beni Ruef. 2006. Zen Corpus 1.0. In: Roberta Facchinetti and Matti Rissanen (eds.), Corpus-based Studies of Diachronic English. 135-155. (Linguistic Insights 31.) Bern: Peter Lang.
Compilers
Udo Fries, Hans Martin Lehmann, Beni Ruef, Peter Schneider, Patrick Studer, Caren auf dem Keller, Beat Nietlispach, Sandra Engler, Sabine Hensel, Franziska Zeller
Availability
For free online use or CD-ROM write to Hans Martin Lehmann, hmlehman@es.uzh.ch.
CoRD Entry submitted on January 16, 2009 by Prof. em. Udo Fries, University of Zurich.
Information for the entry was edited by Prof. em. Udo Fries.
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