LEME\nvery much respects the thinking of the Early Modern English about their own\nlanguage, although its distinctive features are quite different from the\nthinking of contemporary lexicography. Here we link the two lexical systems\nbecause English is one language. That link is the LEME lexeme element held by\nthe <form> and <xpln> tags, which ties Early Modern English\nspellings to the corresponding modern spellings (and parts of speech) of\nheadwords in the Oxford English Dictionary. We did not design our own spelling\nsystem for Early Modern English because we do not speak the language of its\ncontemporaries. If John Hart had no standing in persuading Elizabeth’s council\nto accept his new orthography, how can we? Scores of OED lexicographers, over a\ncentury and a half, have already devised headwords for the history of English\nin all periods and places. Today tools and historical scholarship have enabled\nus to know more about Early Modern English history than its speakers could\nhave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How could we lemmatize consistently? Manual look-up, even on the OED database, was time-consuming for error-prone human beings. It was in 2015 that OED itself offered us \u2013 without asking — the leverage to do so: an Excel file of all 97,800 headwords found to be active between 1475 and 1625 in Early Modern English, attached with first and last dates of occurrence, innovating author, number of quotations, and entry URL. With this, a program could lemmatize most old-spellings correctly.\u00a0 That program was written in 2018-19 by Xeuqi (Sherry) Fan. Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" LEME very much respects the thinking of the Early Modern English about their own language, although its distinctive features are quite different from the thinking of contemporary lexicography. Here we link the two lexical systems because English is one language. That link is the LEME lexeme element held by the <form> and <xpln> tags, which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-37","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leme.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leme.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leme.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leme.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leme.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/leme.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1245,"href":"https:\/\/leme.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37\/revisions\/1245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leme.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}