David,
I've corrected Martin's address and the spenser-l address (which is now sidney-spenser) in your CC line, which means some people will see this reply without having seen your query, which I include in full below.
The URL for WordHoard is:
http://wordhoard.northwestern.edu
There is quite a bit of documentation there on how to use it as well as instructions for downloading and getting it running.
We currently don't have tagging that identifies sentences or phrases, if that's what you're after. We do have some things that might help, though. We do have words tagged by part of speech, and of course part of speech does say something about how a word functions in relation to its neighbors. For example, if you find a preposition and you find a noun next it, then you can be pretty certain you've got a prepositional phrase. But you probably won't learn much about distinctively Spenserian syntax from a trivial example like that. If there is a word question that is part of your syntax question, Wordhoard might help you find what you are looking for.
Do you have any examples of the syntax questions you want to explore?
Happy holidays to you as well, and yes, I will be at MLA this year for the first time in a long time.
Best,
Craig
At 6:44 AM -0500 12/8/06, David L. Miller wrote:
>Dear Craig and Martin,
>
>I need to ask a question about Wordhoard, and should probably start by
>apologizing for not already knowing the answer. I'm enormously
>impressed by what you have accomplished, but not good at retaining the
>details. I need to start making regular use of Wordhoard in order to be
>more familiar with its capacities, but have lost the url. Could I ask
>you to send it again, with any login instructions that may need to
>accompany it?
>
>My specific question du jour is whether your tagging for searchability
>extends beyond the lexical to any sort of syntactic entities. I'm
>working with a colleague in linguistics here, Stan Dubinsky, on a
>proposal to train graduate students for work on the syntax of the FQ,
>and we need to think about how we might take advantage of the resource
>you're providing, now and in the next few years.
>
>Happy holidays. Craig, you'll be at MLA?
>
>David
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