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Referenzkorpus Mittelniederdeutsch/Niederrheinisch
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The project "Reference Corpus Middle Low German/Low Rhenish
(1200–1650)", abbreviated as "ReN", is part of the "Corpus of
Historical German Texts", which includes the projects "Old German
Reference Corpus (750–1050)", the "Reference Corpus Middle High German
(1050–1350)" and the "Reference Corpus Early Modern New High German
(1350–1650)".

The project "Reference Corpus Middle Low German/Low Rhenish
(1200–1650)" deals with a structured selection of Middle Low German
and Low Rhenish monuments of speech from 1200 to 1650. This selection
is based on the parameters "space", "time" and "field of writing".

The reference corpus of Middle Low German and Low Rhenish texts is
based on manuscripts, prints and inscriptions. It is intended to
provide an insight into the culture of speech and writing in Middle
Low German and Low Rhenish regions. This spectrum of text types can be
used to trace the linguistic development on the base of diatopic and
diachronic subcategorisation. The aim of the project is the
publication of diplomatic transcribed, lemmatised and grammatically
annotated texts. The processed data – especially on the grammatical
level – enables a linguistic analysis of the Middle Low German and Low
Rhenish language, which goes far beyond what has been possible until
now.

	Cited from https://corpora.uni-hamburg.de/hzsk/de/islandora/object/text-corpus:ren-1.0#corpus-description
	March 13, 2020


HistCorp inclusion date
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March 13, 2020


Website
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https://corpora.uni-hamburg.de/hzsk/de/islandora/object/text-corpus:ren-1.0


Cite
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ReN-Team. 2019. “Referenzkorpus Mittelniederdeutsch/Niederrheinisch (1200-1650).” Archived in Hamburger Zentrum für Sprachkorpora. Version 1.0. Publication date 2019-08-14. http://hdl.handle.net/11022/0000-0007-D829-8. 


Licence
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)


The HistCorp files
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On the HistCorp page, the German texts from the 'ReN' corpus are
provided in a plain text format ('txt'), a tokenised format
('tok'), and a subset of the texts are also provided in a
linguistically annotated format ('anno'). 

The linguistically annotated files are the same as in the original ReN
corpus, i.e. in a TEI format with information on lemma, part-of-speech
and morphosyntactic information. 

The plain text files are derived from the TEI files, by automatically
extracting the words and sentences from the TEI files. The plain text
files contain one sentence on each line. Furthermore, metadata has
been added in a TEI-compatible format at the top of each txt file. The
metadata information was mainly extracted from the metadata stated on
the corpus website. The dates have been extracted from the file
names. In addition, the number of tokens for each file has been
calculated based on the tokenised version of the file.

In the tokenised files, the texts are split into one token on each
line. This was done following the existing tokenisation in the
original TEI corpus files.

Size: 235 texts, with a total of 2,141,534 tokens.

Genres: speech and writings