Manual to the Corpus of Correspondence

Table of contents

Preface and acknowledgements

Part I Introduction

• 1.1 Reconstruction of text languages
• 1.2 Digitized data for Scots
• 1.3 Dimensions of space, time and social milieu
  • 1.3.1 Time
  • 1.3.2 Space
  • 1.3.3 Social milieu
  • 1.3.4 Community type
• 1.4 Letters as a data source

Part II Compilation principles and practices

• 2.1 Protean corpora: multidimensionality, flexibility, and transparency
  • 2.1.1 A corpus and its various forms
  • 2.1.2 Transparency of the theoretical and methodological approach
• 2.2 Selection of data for the CSC
• 2.3 Transcription and digitization
  • 2.3.1 Manuscript layout
  • 2.3.2 Insertions, deletions, cancellations and corrections
  • 2.3.3 Ambiguity
  • 2.3.4 Contracted forms
  • 2.3.5 Character shapes and special characters
  • 2.3.6 Punctuation
• 2.4 Language-external information in the text files

Part III Annotation

• 3.1 Visual prosody
• 3.2 Principles of tagging
  • 3.2.1 Introduction
  • 3.2.2 The rationale of elaborating tags
  • 3.2.3 The theory of tags in the CSC
    • 3.2.3.1 Analysis at the phrasal, clausal, sentential, discoursal and textual levels
    • 3.2.3.2 Data retrieval for the identification of historical continua
    • 3.2.3.3 The discourse basis of categorization
    • 3.2.3.4 Zero-realisations in variational paradigms
    • 3.2.3.5 Variation on a cline from maximally-elaborated to maximally-compressed ways of processing information
  • 3.2.4 The structure of a tag
    • 3.2.4.1 The lexel
    • 3.2.4.2 The grammel
    • 3.2.4.3 Comments within tags
    • 3.2.4.4 Contextual properties
    • 3.2.4.5 Tag-external comments
    • 3.2.4.6 Morphological analysis
• 3.3 Practices of tagging
  • 3.3.1 The verb phrase and its complementation
    • 3.3.1.1 The lexel
    • 3.3.1.2 The grammel
  • 3.3.2 The noun phrase
    • 3.3.2.1 The lexel
    • 3.3.2.2 The grammel
  • 3.3.3 Nominal clauses
  • 3.3.4 Nominalization
  • 3.3.5 The adjective phrase
  • 3.3.6 Pronouns
    • 3.3.6.1 Personal, possessive and reflexive pronouns
    • 3.3.6.2 Demonstrative pronouns
    • 3.3.6.3 Indefinite pronouns
    • 3.3.6.4 Interrogative pronouns
    • 3.3.6.5 Relative pronouns
    • 3.3.6.6 Relations between reference signals
  • 3.3.7 The adverb phrase
  • 3.3.8 Connectives
  • 3.3.9 Negation
  • 3.3.10 Numerals
  • 3.3.11 Affixation and compounding
• 3.4 Commentary
• I. Comments in the text
• II. Comments in the lexel
• III. Comments in the grammel

Part IV Case studies

• 'Annotating variational space over time' http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/journal/volumes/01/meurman-solin/

Part V Auxiliary data sources

• Key to tags
• Key to comments
• Data arranged by time and space, with word counts
• Further reading on Older Scots
• CSC informants
• Index of Sources
• Software