The Helsinki Corpus of English Texts is a structured multi-genre diachronic corpus, which includes periodically organized text samples from Old, Middle and Early Modern English. Each sample is preceded by a list of parameter codes giving information on the text and its author. The corpus is useful particularly in the study of the change of linguistic features in long diachrony. It can be used as a diagnostic corpus giving general information of the occurrence of forms, structures and lexemes in different periods of English. This information can be supplemented by evidence yielded by more special and focused historical corpora.
More information on the corpus: https://varieng.helsinki.fi/CoRD/corpora/HelsinkiCorpus/
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| Helsinki Corpus TEI-XML Edition (2011), Korp Metadata and license Attribution instructions |
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| Helsinki Corpus of English Texts, VRT Metadata and license Attribution instructions |
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| Helsinki Corpus of English Texts, Early Modern English section, source Metadata and license Attribution instructions |
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Of this language corpus different versions/subcorpora are published in the Language Bank of Finland. The versions are available through the Language Bank Download Service and/or through the Korp concordance tool. The links to the different versions can be found from the list above.
Detailed information on the content of each version, user rights and licenses can be found from it’s specific metadata record in META-SHARE.
This resource group page has a Persistent Identifier: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:lb-2021050302
