A Project for a Comprehensive Collation of the Hengwrt and Ellesmere Manuscripts of The Canterbury Tales : The General Prologue

Author / Editor
Nakao, Yoshiyuki, Akiyuki Jimura, and Masatsugu Matsuo.

Title
A Project for a Comprehensive Collation of the Hengwrt and Ellesmere Manuscripts of The Canterbury Tales : The General Prologue

Published
Junsaku Nakamura et al., eds. English Corpora Under Japanese Eyes (an anthology commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Japan Association for English Corpus Studies) (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004), pp. 139-50.

Series
Language and Computers, no. 51.

Description
Project proposal for a computer-assisted comparison of the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts of CT, focusing on how the manuscripts represent compound words, the use of double and single letters, the omission and addition of letters, the use of abbreviations and expanded forms, and the use of capital or noncapital letters.

Contributor
Jimura, Akiyuki.
Matsuo, Masatsugu.

Alternative Title
English Corpora Under Japanese Eyes.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.