LINGUIST List 21.4812 Tue Nov 30 2010 FYI: Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing (CMSW) Launch Editor for this issue: Brent Miller <brentlinguistlist.org> To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     David Beavan , Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing (CMSW) Launch Message 1: Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing (CMSW) Launch Date: 30-Nov-2010 From: David Beavan <d.beavanenglang.arts.gla.ac.uk> Subject: Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing (CMSW) Launch E-mail this message to a friend St Andrew's Day marks the public launch of the University of Glasgow's latest Digital Humanities project, the Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing. For the first time the resource makes freely available a wide range of documents in Scots and Scottish English from 1700-1945, ranging from a rare first edition of Robert Burns' poems to letters from the explorer David Livingstone to murder trial transcripts dating back to the 1750s. The free online resource contains texts, digital images and searchable transcriptions, and can be found at: http://www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk/cmsw/ The Corpus also features James Hogg's first ever book - a treatise on diseases of sheep; personal accounts of the 1715 uprising; letters to Scotland from the French-Indian war and from emigrants to Australia in the 19th century. City Council minutes are also present along with a work on spiritualism by Arthur Conan Doyle, novels and student disciplinary trials of the 18th century and a selection of personal letters and diaries that give an invaluable insight into Scottish life in days gone by. The CMSW project has been funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), and run by the University’s Department of English Language, now part of the School of Critical Studies. Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 30-Nov-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.