A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediæval English (eLALME)

eLALME is a revised on-line edition of A Linguistic Atlas of Mediaeval English (Atlas), by Angus McIntosh, M.L. Samuels and Michael Benskin, published in 1986 by Aberdeen University Press. The content of the original atlas, with revisions, corrections and additions, is here made available as a freely accessible website. For a more detailed orientation, and an introduction both to the materials used in the making of the Atlas and to the methodology adopted for its linguistic analysis, the user is referred to the General Introduction in volume 1 of the printed edition and to the separate introductions in the other three volumes. For copies of these please see the Original Atlas Introductions. These are also available from the eLALME main page. You can use your browser’s ‘Print’ function to make PDF versions. Please note that these introductions have not been updated to take account of changes and differences in eLALME.

Compilers: Angus McIntosh(University of Edinburgh), M. L. Samuels (University of Glasgow), Michael Benskin (University of Oslo), with the assistance of
Margaret Laing and Keith Williamson (University of Edinburgh)

Period: ca. 1150–1325 

Language: ME

Project home page:http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/ihd/elalme/elalme.html

Funding: The Arts and Humanities Research Council of Great Britain,The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of New York.

Reference line and copyright

If you publish any books or papers in print or in electronic form (including web-based material) the content of which has in way involved or benefited from the use of the eLALME website, then you must include in such publication a written acknowledgment that the eLALME website was used and that the eLALME website and materials you have used are the copyright of the University of Edinburgh.

An appropriate citation is:

M. Benskin, M. Laing, V. Karaiskos and K. Williamson. An Electronic Version of A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English [http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/ihd/elalme/elalme.html] 
(Edinburgh: © 2013- The Authors and The University of Edinburgh).

Availability

Online: http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/ihd/elalme/elalme.html

Compilers

Angus McIntosh(University of Edinburgh), M. L. Samuels (University of Glasgow), Michael Benskin (University of Oslo), with the assistance of
Margaret Laing and Keith Williamson (University of Edinburgh).

First published by Aberdeen University Press, 1986.

Revised and supplemented by Michael Benskin (University of Oslo) and Margaret Laing (University of Edinburgh)

Webscripts by Vasilis Karaiskos and Keith Williamson (University of Edinburgh), 2013

Manual

on the corpus website.