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Program

Preservation and Access: Preservation/Access Projects

Period of Performance

7/1/2004 - 6/30/2006

Funding Totals

$250,000.00 (approved)
$250,000.00 (awarded)

Creating an Online Linguistic Corpus of Portuguese Texts Dating from the 12th Century to the Present

FAIN: PA-50658-04

Brigham Young University (Provo, UT 84602)
Mark E. Davies (Project Director: July 2003 to November 2006)

The creation of a thirty-million word, online corpus of historical Portuguese texts from the thirteenth century to the present that would allow a variety of linguistic and literary analyses and would also contribute to the development of the "Dictionary of the Old Portuguese Language."