ARCHER: A Representative Corpus of Historical English Registers

Consortium members

Following a meeting in Lancaster on 28 May 2009 there were some changes to membership of the consortium. A further change was agreed in July 2013, and another in November 2013. There are currently consortium members at the following university departments.

Finland

  • University of Helsinki, Department of Modern Languages (English Philology): Minna Palander-Collin, Turo Hiltunen

Germany

  • University of Bamberg (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg), Department of English (Lehrstuhl für Englische Sprachwissenschaft einschließlich Sprachgeschichte): Manfred Krug
  • University of Freiburg (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), Department of English (Englisches Seminar): Christian Mair, Bernd Kortmann
  • University of Heidelberg (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg), Department of English (Anglistisches Seminar): Nadja Nesselhauf
  • University of Trier (Universität Trier), Department of English Studies (Fachbereich Anglistik): Sebastian Hoffmann

Spain

  • University of Santiago de Compostela, Research Unit on Variation, Linguistic Change and Grammaticalization, Department of English and German (Departamento de Filoloxía Inglesa e Alemá): Teresa Fanego, María José López-Couso, Belén Méndez-Naya, Paloma Núñez-Pertejo

Sweden

  • Uppsala University (Uppsala universitet), Department of English: Merja Kytö

Switzerland

  • University of Zurich (Universität Zürich), Department of English (Englisches Seminar): Gerold Schneider

UK

  • Lancaster University, UCREL Research Centre: Paul Rayson
  • University of Leicester, School of Education/School of English: Nicholas Smith
  • The University of Manchester, Linguistics and English Language: David Denison, Nuria Yáñez-Bouza

USA

  • University of Michigan, Department of English: Anne Curzan
  • Northern Arizona University (NAU), Department of English: Douglas Biber
  • University of Southern California (USC), Department of Linguistics: Edward Finegan

Most of these departments are willing to host visits by interested scholars who wish to consult ARCHER. Please email archer@manchester.ac.uk for contact details of the responsible person at one of these departments.