[Histling-l] Invitation webinar release EDGeS Diachronic Bible Corpus - 28 May 2021

[Evie Coussé]

Dear colleague,



You are cordially invited to join the webinar release of the EDGeS Diachronic Bible Corpus:

-          Friday 28 May 2021

-          14:00-15:00 (CEST)

-          Zoom link: https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/64960898660?pwd=RXU4L1JOWC9DNjVIUDdRQTVVOTFoUT09



The EDGeS Corpus is a newly compiled corpus of historical Bible translations in English, Dutch, German and Swedish from the fourteenth century until the present day. The corpus brings together thirty-six historical Bible translations in one searchable format and connects them with each other on the verse level. This makes the EDGeS Corpus a so-called parallel corpus in both the synchronic and diachronic dimensions. The corpus is compiled as part of the research project The rise of complex verb constructions in Germanic<https://spraakbanken.gu.se/projekt/complex-verb-constructions> (sponsored by the Swedish Research Foundation, based at the University of Gothenburg) and is made freely available for other researchers to use and build upon.



Program of the release webinar:

-          Potential of historical parallel texts for studying language change

-          Digitizing historical Bible translations through crowd sourcing

-          Choices and challenges in building a historical Bible corpus

-          Demonstration of the EDGeS Corpus

-          Some preliminary results

-          Future plans



Contributors:

-          Evie Coussé (University of Gothenburg)

-          Gerlof Bouma (University of Gothenburg)

-          Nicoline van der Sijs (Dutch Language Institute, Leiden)

-          Eloisa Ruppert (KULeuven)


Event website: https://www.gu.se/en/event/release-edges-diachronic-bible-corpus

Kind regards,
Evie Coussé

University of Gothenburg
Department of Languages and Literatures
Box 200
405 30 Gothenburg
Sweden

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