- $350,000
Dictionary of American Regional English [DARE]
Recipient: Hall, Joan H (Madison, WI 53706-1403 USA) in affiliation with University of Wisconsin, Madison (Madison, WI 53706 USA)
Goal: Lexicographical work to complete all entries of the "Dictionary of American Regional English" (DARE), which documents geographical differences in the vocabulary, pronunciation, and morphology of American English.
Description: The Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) is a reference work describing regional and folk varieties of American English. Based on a large body of oral data collected in all fifty states between 1965 and 1970, it also draws on thousands of written and electronic sources covering the colonial period to the present time. A unique feature of DARE is its use of computer-generated maps to show distributions of regional terms. Volumes I (A to C), II (D to H), III (I to O), and IV (P to Sk), published by Harvard University Press in 1985, 1991, 1996, and 2002, respectively, have been highly acclaimed by scholars and public alike. Volume V (Sl to Z) will appear in 2010, with a supplementary volume of data and an electronic edition to follow. DARE's materials will remain available for scholars both in electronic form and through the maintenance of an archive of research and reference materials.
Grant: 194408 / PW-50315-09, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources, Year Awarded: 2009 - $199,926
A 200 Million Word, Fully-Searchable, Web-Based Historical Corpus of American English
Recipient: Davies, Mark E (Provo, UT 84602 USA) in affiliation with Brigham Young University, Provo
Goal: Creation of a 200-million word historical corpus of American English, covering a wide range of genres and texts dating from the 1800s through the early 2000s. The annotated texts and user interfaces would facilitate the study of linguistic and stylistic change over the past several centuries.
Description: This project will result in the creation of the first large (200 million words) historical corpus of American English. It will contain texts from throughout the last two hundred years and will contain a wide range of genres and text types. The web-based corpus will permit a wide range of searches, and it will enable advanced researchers to study linguistic changes in American English with much more detail than is possible with any other corpus. This linguistic data can then be used to answer fundamental questions about language change, as well as provide insight into literary, cultural, and social influences affecting American English throughout its history.
Grant: 194453 / PW-50360-09, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources, Year Awarded: 2009 - $349,600
Digitization of Atlas Audio Recordings
Recipient: Kretzschmar, William (Athens, GA 30602 USA) in affiliation with University of Georgia
Goal: Digitization of interviews from the Linguistic Atlas Project, including 6,400 hours of audio interviews with speakers of American English from the 1960s to the 1990s.
Description: The Linguistic Atlas Project (LAP) consists of a set of survey research projects about the words and pronunciation of everyday American English, including thousands of interviews across the country from the 1930s through the present. This project will digitize all surviving LAP audio recordings, a total of 6400 hours from interviews in the 1960s through the present. Interviews consist mainly of six-hour conversations between a field worker and a speaker native to a survey area, about the common circumstances of life in America (e.g. family, housing, food, customs, flora and fauna). The interviews will be indexed by time and topic, and made available on the LAP Web site and on CD. Complete information about speakers and interviews (metadata), created according to archival standards, will be stored with the topical index in a software system built to support public Web access to archives of regional language varieties. The audio archive will preserve the 20th-century voice of America.
Grant: 189709 / PW-50007-08, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources, Year Awarded: 2008 - $200,000
Dictionary of Old English [DOE]
Recipient: Healey, Antonette diPaolo (Toronto, Canada) in affiliation with University of Toronto (Toronto, ON Canada)
Goal: The preparation of entries for the "Dictionary of Old English," a historical dictionary based on the entire extant corpus of Old English texts written between A.D. 650 and 1150.
Description: The aim of the Dictionary of Old English (DOE) is to define the vocabulary of records written in English between 600 and 1150 C.E., using the technology of the twenty-first century. Because of its Electronic Corpus, comprising at least one copy of every Old English text, the DOE is based on a comprehensive examination of the surviving evidence. The DOE complements the other major historical dictionaries of English: the Middle English Dictionary (1100-1500 C.E.), and the Oxford English Dictionary, (which catalogues English up to the present). In 2003 the DOE made a significant technological advance by publishing DOE: A to F on CD-ROM, the first electronic version of the first seven letters (out of 22). In Fall 2007, the project will release DOE: A to G online, the first Web version of the first eight letters. An innovative feature is the link to the OED, providing a mechanism for dictionary cross-searching.
Grant: 189750 / PW-50048-08, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources, Year Awarded: 2008 - $41,950
Pattern Recognition through Computational Stylistics: Old English and Beyond
Recipient: LeBlanc, Mark David (Norton, MA 02766 USA) in affiliation with Wheaton College
Goal: Development of a prototypical suite of computational tools and statistical analyses to explore the corpus of Old English literature using the genomic approach of tracing information-rich patterns of letters as well as that of literary analysis and interpretation.
Description: Professors Drout, Kahn, and LeBlanc have prepared a Level II proposal to prototype a suite of computational tools and statistical analyses to explore the Old English corpus. This work will serve as a proof of concept for the larger deployment of corpus-independent tools. Anticipated outcomes include scalable, open-source software to facilitate the computation and organization of word frequencies and other patterns and empirical measures of success when using various statistical analyses on the condensed data. An additional and essential outcome from our perspective is how this research leads to and impacts the development of interdisciplinary course materials for our connected (interdisciplinary) undergraduate courses in English, Statistics, and Computer Science in order that computational analyses become a more inviting option for faculty and advanced research students in the Humanities.
Grant: 191208 / HD-50300-08, Division: Digital Humanities, Program: Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants, Year Awarded: 2008 - $700,000
Dictionary of American Regional English [DARE]
Recipient: Hall, Joan H (Madison, WI 53706-1403 USA) in affiliation with University of Wisconsin, Madison (Madison, WI 53706 USA)
Goal: The compilation of the fifth and sixth volumes of the "Dictionary of American Regional English" (DARE), which documents geographical differences in the vocabulary, pronunciation, and morphology of American English.
Description: The Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) is a reference work describing regional and folk varieties of American English. Based on a large body of oral data collected in all fifty states from 1965 to 1970, it also draws on thousands of written and electronic sources covering the colonial period to the present time. A unique feature of DARE is its use of computer-generated maps to show distributions of regional terms. Volumes I (A?C), II (D?H), III (I?O), and IV (P?Sk), published by Harvard University Press in 1985, 1991, 1996, and 2002, respectively, have been highly acclaimed by scholars and public alike. Volume V (Sl?Z) is expected to appear in 2009, with a supplementary volume of data thereafter. Preparations for an electronic edition are being made now, with publication to follow the print edition. DARE?s materials will remain available for scholars both in electronic form and through the maintenance of an archive of research and reference materials.
Grant: 184790 / PM-50009-07, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Reference Materials, Year Awarded: 2007 - $200,000
Dictionary of Old English (DOE)
Recipient: Healey, Antonette diPaolo (Toronto, Canada) in affiliation with University of Toronto (Toronto, ON Canada)
Goal: The preparation of entries for the "Dictionary of Old English," a historical dictionary based on the entire extant corpus of Old English texts written between A.D. 650 and 1150.
Grant: 179639 / PA-52114-06, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Preservation/Access Projects, Year Awarded: 2006 - $600,000
Dictionary of American Regional English [DARE]
Recipient: Hall, Joan H (Madison, WI 53706-1403 USA) in affiliation with University of Wisconsin, Madison (Madison, WI 53706 USA)
Goal: The compilation of the fifth volume of the "Dictionary of American Regional English" (DARE), which documents geographical differences in the vocabulary, pronunciation, and morphology of American English.
Grant: 174320 / PA-51195-05, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Preservation/Access Projects, Year Awarded: 2005 - $146,448
National Great Books Project: Humanities Education for Minority and Non-Traditional Community College Students
Recipient: Gans, Bruce M (Chicago, IL 60634 USA) in affiliation with City Colleges of Chicago, Wilbur Wright College (Chicago, IL 60634-1500 USA)
Goal: A materials development project to provide online resources for teaching Great Books courses in the nation's community colleges.
Grant: 170563 / EE-50149-04, Division: Education Programs, Program: Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development, Year Awarded: 2004 - $700,000
Dictionary of American Regional English [DARE]
Recipient: Hall, Joan H (Madison, WI 53706-1403 USA) in affiliation with University of Wisconsin, Madison (Madison, WI 53706 USA)
Goal: The compilation of volume V of the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE), which documents geographical differences in the vocabulary, pronunciation, and morphology of American English.
Grant: 162776 / PA-50186-03, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Preservation/Access Projects, Year Awarded: 2003 - $200,000
Dictionary of Old English [DOE]
Recipient: Healey, Antonette diPaolo (Toronto, Canada) in affiliation with University of Toronto (Toronto, ON Canada)
Goal: The preparation of 2,000 entries for the DICTIONARY OF OLD ENGLISH, a historical dictionary based on the entire surviving corpus of records written in English between 650 and 1150 A.D.
Grant: 158360 / PA-24201-02, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Preservation/Access Projects, Year Awarded: 2002 - $100,000
Endowed Distinguished Professorship in Literature and the Humanities.
Recipient: Woodson, Linda T (San Antonio, TX 78249 USA) in affiliation with University of Texas, San Antonio (San Antonio, TX 78285 USA)
Goal: Endowment for a distinguished professorship in a new cross-cultural doctoral program in the humanities.
Grant: 92423 / CH-20924-02, Division: Challenge Grants, Program: Challenge Grants, Year Awarded: 2002 - $700,000
Dictionary of American Regional English [DARE]
Recipient: Hall, Joan H (Madison, WI 53706-1403 USA) in affiliation with University of Wisconsin, Madison (Madison, WI 53706 USA)
Goal: The completion of volume IV and compilation of volume V of the DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN REGIONAL ENGLISH, which documents geographical differences in the vocabulary, pronunciation, and morphology of American English.
Grant: 158189 / PA-23820-01, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Preservation/Access Projects, Year Awarded: 2001 - $200,000
The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Recipient: Fraistat, Neil R (College Park, MD 20742 USA) in affiliation with University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, MD 20742-5141 USA)
Goal: To support the continuing preparation of a new critical edition of the complete poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Grant: 161787 / RZ-20749-01, Division: Research Programs, Program: Collaborative Research, Year Awarded: 2001 - $700,000
Dictionary of American Regional English [DARE]
Recipient: Hall, Joan H (Madison, WI 53706-1403 USA) in affiliation with University of Wisconsin, Madison (Madison, WI 53706 USA)
Goal: To support the compilation of volumes IV and V of the DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN REGIONAL ENGLISH (DARE), which documents geographical differences in the vocabulary, pronunciation, and morphology of American English.
Grant: 158039 / PA-23394-99, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Preservation/Access Projects, Year Awarded: 1999 - $220,000
Literature-based Partnerships Between Middle/High School Teachers & Higher Education Faculty
Recipient: Maddox, James H (Middlebury, VT 05733 USA) in affiliation with Middlebury College (Middlebury, VT 05753 USA)
Goal: To support a project of intensive summer study pairing middle and high school teachers of literature with college faculty-mentors to design electronic literature-based exchanges for their classes.
Grant: 141878 / ED-21109-98, Division: Education Programs, Program: Education Development and Demonstration, Year Awarded: 1998 - $190,000
The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Recipient: Fraistat, Neil R (College Park, MD 20742 USA) in affiliation with University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, MD 20742-5141 USA)
Goal: To support the preparation of an edition of the complete poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Grant: 161677 / RZ-20307-98, Division: Research Programs, Program: Collaborative Research, Year Awarded: 1998 - $700,000
Dictionary of American Regional English [DARE]
Recipient: Cassidy, Frederic G (Madison, WI 53706-0000 USA) in affiliation with University of Wisconsin, Madison (Madison, WI 53706 USA)
Goal: To support the compilation of volumes IV and V of the DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN REGIONAL ENGLISH (DARE), which documents geographical differences in the vocabulary, pronunciation, and morphology of American English.
Grant: 157960 / PA-23057-97, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Preservation/Access Projects, Year Awarded: 1997 - $174,815
The Literary Traditions of Medieval Women
Recipient: Chance, Jane (Houston, TX 77251 USA) in affiliation with Rice University
Goal: A six-week institute for twenty-five faculty on medieval women writers.
Grant: 142706 / EH-22186-96, Division: Education Programs, Program: Institutes for College and University Teachers, Year Awarded: 1996 - $102,928
The Bible as Literature
Recipient: Brisman, Leslie (New Haven, CT 06520 USA) in affiliation with Yale University
Grant: 151547 / FS-22956-96, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for College Teachers, Year Awarded: 1996 - Endowment for the humanities grants to category English; items 1-21 of 80 with a total funding of $6,775,667.