Month: May 2018

Genealogies of Knowledge Software – Developments and Enhancements

Project News

The Genealogies of Knowledge project has recently announced the release of the GoK corpus browser interface for researchers wishing to work with the range of corpora developed as part of this project. This is a substantial resource which is constantly being expanded. It currently consists of the following sections: Modern English Corpus: 17,757,212 tokens Internet English Corpus: 1,201,414 tokens Classical Greek

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A host of tongues.. Multilingualism, lingua franca and translation in the Early Modern period

Events
A host of tongues…: Multilingualism, lingua franca and translation in the Early Modern period

Call for Papers 13-15 December 2018 Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nova University of Lisbon Conference Website In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the linguistic situation in Europe was one of remarkable fluidity. Latin, the great scholarly lingua franca of the medieval period, was beginning to crack as the tectonic plates shifted beneath it, but the vernaculars had not

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