Forwarded from Peter Flynn. Michael Everson School of Architecture, UCD; Richview, Clonskeagh; Dublin 14; E/ire Phone: +353 1 706-2745 Fax: +353 1 283-8908 Home: +353 1 478-2597 ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > Does anyone know if there are any electronic corpora of Irish, Old Irish, > Scots Gaelic, Manx etc. out there in netland? I'm interested in corpora of > syntax, phonology, acquisition, you name it! > > Go raibh maith agaibh. > > Andrew The Thesaurus Linguarum Hiberniae is a 10-year project of the Royal Irish Academy and University College Cork to make a machine-readable corpus of Irish literature. The texts are being scanned (in the main) from printed editions, starting with the early manuscript period, and are being encoded in SGML accoring to the principles of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). Further details are available at URL http://curia.ucc.ie/curia/menu.html (use your favourite WorldWideWeb client, or telnet info.cern.ch and type GO http://curia.ucc.ie/curia/menu.html, or if you're on an email-only system, mail a 1-line message with that GO command to webmail@curia.ucc.ie) The texts are being made available thru the web and also by ftp. At the moment, there is only a pilot text of the Aisling Oenguso there, but the current status of texts being worked on is also listed (due for an update this week: the Annals of the Four Masters is approaching completion). When we have sufficient volume, we'll start on CDs. For further details please contact the Project Secretary, Dr Patricia Kelly, at the Royal Irish Academy, Dawson Street, Dublin (curiapk@ccvax.ucd.ie). Please feel free to forward and share this information on the network. There is a mailing list for interested parties, CURIA-L, and you subscribe to it in the normal way: mail to listserv@irlearn.ucd.ie saying SUB CURIA-L forename surname (replacing and with your own, of course, you'd be amazed how many people seem to think they are called Mr F. Surname!) ///Peter ----- End Included Message -----