LINGUIST List 22.4797 Thu Dec 01 2011 FYI: Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME) Editor for this issue: Brent Miller <brentlinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     Lyda Fens-de Zeeuw , Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME) Message 1: Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME) Date: 01-Dec-2011 From: Lyda Fens-de Zeeuw <lyda.fens.dezeeuwutoronto.ca> Subject: Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME) E-mail this message to a friend Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME), published by Toronto University Press and edited by Ian Lancashire, is a historical database of monolingual, bilingual, and polyglot dictionaries, lexical encyclopedias, hard-word glossaries, spelling lists, and lexically- valuable treatises surviving in print or manuscript from the Tudor, Stuart, Caroline, Commonwealth, and Restoration periods. Texts of word-entries whose headword (source) or explanation (target) language is English tell us what speakers of English thought about their tongue in the period served by the Short-title and Wing catalogues, from the advent of printing to about 1700. Their lexical insights, which may at times seem misguided to us, shaped the history of our living tongue. Any contemporary's testimony about the meaning of their own words has an undeniable authority. There are two versions of LEME, a public one and a licensed one. The public version of LEME allows anyone, anywhere, to do simple searches on the multilingual lexical database -- which currently includes major monolingual English and bilingual English-French- Italian-Latin-Spanish dictionaries, soon to be accompanied by a Dutch one -- but it lacks advanced retrieval options, such as proximity and Boolean queries, regular expressions, and searching by date, subject, language, position in the word-entry, etc. Bibliographical entries for only the searchable texts are available. Queries can be restricted to one or more individual works in LEME, and up to one-hundred word- entries in which a queried word occurs may be retrieved. Results of searches may be held in a notepad for printing or e-mailing. Context- sensitive help for searching is available. The licensed version of LEME has the functionality of the public version but is designed as a full-featured scholarly resource for original research into the entire lexical content of Early Modern English. The primary LEME database of lexical works, in the licensed version, also offers simple and advanced searches, including regular- expression and sub-string queries, and proximity and Boolean searches. The size of search contexts is adjustable. Queries on the lexical database may be restricted by date, author, title, type of lexical work, and subject. A complete word-list of the lexical database may be browsed. An index to over 1,200 known lexical works in the period may be searched by date, author, title, subject, and genre. There is also a biographical index. The public version serves general readers and schools. The licensed version serves colleges and universities. We gladly welcome comments and suggestions but as of yet we do not have sufficient resources to answer all questions. Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Lexicography Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 01-Dec-2011       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.