Corpus of Oz Early English (COOEE)

Material to be included had to meet with a regional and a temporal criterion. The latter required texts to have been produced between 1788 and 1900 in order to become eligible for COOEE. It was mandatory for a text to have been written in Australia, New Zealand or Norfolk Island. But in a few cases, other localities were allowed. For example, if a person who was a native Australian or who had lived in Australia for a considerable time, wrote a shipboard diary or travelled in other countries. Contains: Letters, published materials in book form, historical texts. The collection is stratified in two ways: Time period - The corpus is divided into four time periods: Period 1: 1788-1825 Period 2: 1826-1850 Period 3: 1851-1875 Period 4: 1876-1900 The initial numeral of each file name indicates the period from which the document comes. Register - The corpus contains material from four registers: Speech-based (sb) Private written (prw) Public written (pcw) Government English (ge)