Progress Report

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• Progress Report
• Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
• 13 October 2006

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The Codifiers project

• The project
• The people
• Some statistics
• The highlights of the past year
• Looking ahead

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The Project

• NWO VICI project
• start 1 July 2005
• finish 31 August 2010
• Website
• Weblog
• pilot University of Leiden

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The Codifiers and the English Language

• Aim finding the norms of standard English
• Codification and prescription
• Main focus grammars and letters
• Subprojects
• Lowths language
• Sir Horace Walpole a case study
• Priestleys descriptivism
• Lindley Murray, Quaker grammarian
• Grammars for children
• The normative grammarians influence

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The people

• Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (project leader)
• Anita Auer (postdoc)
• Karlijn Navest (PhD student)
• Anni Sairio (PhD Student, 1 Jan.1 Sept. 2006)
• Froukje Henstra (PhD student)
• Lyda Fens-de Zeeuw (PhD student)
• Robin Straaijer (PhD student)
• Patricia Chaudron (project assistent)

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Some statistics

• 3 workshops
• Grammars, Grammarians and Grammar Writing
  (Leiden, December 2005)
• Social Network Analysis (Leiden, May 2006)
• Towards a Handbook on LModE Letters (Bergamo,
  August 2006)
• Any results yet?
• publications 1 review, 3 articles
• 7 forthc. articles
• 25 papers!

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The Highlights

• Setting up the project
• The weblog
• Reviewed in NWOs Geestesoog
• Monthly Lunch Meetings
• Acquiring ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections
  Online)
• In collaboration with the University Library
• A lot of publicity University Newsletter, Metro,
  Mare, Leidsch Dagblad

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Looking ahead

• Symposium on ECCO, with the Library
• Organising 3LModE, end of August
• Call for papers 30 November 2006
• 3 letter corpora
• The Codifiers Correspondence Corpus
• The Leiden Manchester Letter Corpus
• A Childrens Letters Corpus
• The next Monthly Lunch Meeting
• Annegien Theunissen