The Parsed Corpus of Scottish Correspondence, source 

Shortname: pcsc-src 

Metadata: https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:lb-2024070601

Rightholders: Lisa Gotthard, Anneli Meurman-Solin

License: ACA NC
The complete license is available at http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:lb-2024070603

A copy of the license is included in LICENSE.txt. The license details may be 
subject to change, so before downloading the resource, please refer to the 
latest version of the license at the above link.

Resource group page: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:lb-202104191




ABOUT THE CORPUS:
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The Parsed Corpus of Scottish Correspondence (PCSC; 1540-1750) is a corpus 
of letters written by Scottish writers which has been syntactically annotated 
in the Penn Parsed Corpora of Historical English (PPCHE) format. This places 
the PCSC within a family of sister corpora which use the PPCHE annotation 
conventions, e.g., corpora of historical English, Yiddish, French, etc., and 
makes the PCSC the first Scots corpus which can be easily used for comparative 
study within this family of corpora. 
The PCSC consists of data from the Helsinki Corpus of Scottish Correspondence, 
compiled by Annelie Meurman-Solin and the VARIENG group, and the metadata 
collected by the original compilers (e.g., on writer and addressee gender, 
writer origin, letter location, script type, etc.) makes this a suitable
resource not only for studies on syntactic variation and change, but also
on social factors affecting variation and change.
The original resource was produced by Anneli Meurman-Solin in 2017 and 
syntactically parsed and annotated by Lisa Gotthard in 2024. 


PACKAGE CONTENT:
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- PCSC-v1_files: 932 text files with .psd extension

- PCSC-v1_metadata.csv: contains metadata related to the previous files

- PCSC_README.txt: README file by Lisa Gotthard


More information on the format, and the annotation manual, can be found here: https://www.ling.upenn.edu/hist-corpora/annotation/index.html

Additional information, as well as information on known issues, can be found here: https://www.lisagotthard.com/the-pcsc



For further information, please contact fin-clarin@helsinki.fi .