Modelling concepts and semantic change
The Sheffield RAs are hard at work on our audit of Early English Books Online, figuring out how best to clean up the TCP data for Linguistic DNA’s research goals. In the last post, Seth documented our intention to try out 2 of the tools that
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The Linguistic DNA project relies on two very large linguistic data sources for evidence of semantic and conceptual change from c.1500 to c.1800—Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership dataset (EEBO-TCP),and Gale Cengage’s Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO). The team
Read moreThe Linguistic DNA blog is a space for those working on the project to reflect on methodology, findings, and other aspects of the project in an informal way. Fraser, Iona, and Seth (the research associates) will be taking it in
Read moreThe Glasgow contingent of the Linguistic DNA team are ‘on tour’ this month, with engagements in Canterbury, Newcastle, and Lancaster. Details: Marc Alexander will speak on “Insipidity and taste in Early Modern English” at the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) conference
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