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Intern – Katie Bates
Having just finished my second year as an English Language and Linguistics student at Lancaster University, I was thrilled to be given the opportunity to complete an internship with the department, on the subject of the language of Shakespeare. My … Continue reading
Shakespeare’s Neologisms: From Myth to Evidence
Following on from the AHRC-funded Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language project, we are pleased to announce that we have been successfully awarded a grant (£9,740.15) from the British Academy. The project will establish whether, and to what extent, widely held views … Continue reading
Scuffles, Swagger, and Shakespeare: The Hidden Story of English
Our very own Jonathan Culpeper recently featured in the BBC Four documentary “Scuffles, Swagger, and Shakespeare: The Hidden Story of English” presented by Dr. John Gallagher. Jonathan discusses some recent work coming out of the Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language project, … Continue reading
Intern – Eleanor Field
Hi, I’m Eleanor, and I’ve just finished my second year of studying English Language and Linguistics at Lancaster. During my summer break I completed an internship working on the Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare’s Language, supervised by Professor Jonathan Culpeper. I decided … Continue reading
A close encounter with Richard III
By Dr Jane Demmen, Senior Research Associate Last month project Co-Investigator Andrew Hardie and I presented a paper at the Computational Methods for Literary-Historical Textual Scholarship conference at De Montfort University in Leicester (UK): a great event bringing together scholars … Continue reading
New intern
We are very pleased to welcome Poppy Plumb to the Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare’s Language team for the next few weeks. Find out a little more about Poppy and what she’ll be working on below… I’ve just finished my second year … Continue reading
Is that a verb I see before me? Implementing grammatical category/part-of-speech tagging in the Shakespeare Corpus
Jane Demmen discusses the process of part-of-speech tagging the Shakespeare corpus, explores some of the issues the team encountered, and their subsequent solutions… One of the many software programs that enables us to carry out the task of creating an … Continue reading
New team members
The Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare’s Language project has just welcomed three new members to its team who will be working part-time on low-frequency items. Find out a little more about them below: Luke Wilding: I completed my undergraduate degree in English … Continue reading
Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics and other Digital Methods
Summer School
Writing Tips from Shakespeare – Lancaster University’s Language Detectives
Jules Horne, a playwright and attendee of the Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics and other Digital Methods reflects on her visit, and discusses the importance of the Encyclopaedia and Shakespeare’s Language project… Ever wondered about Shakespeare as a writer? What … Continue reading