Neologism dataset for "From plenipotentiary to puddingless: Users and uses of new words in early English letters"

These data files are related to the following paper:

Säily, Tanja, Eetu Mäkelä and Mika Hämäläinen. 2021. From plenipotentiary to puddingless: Users and uses of new words in early English letters. Mika Hämäläinen, Niko Partanen & Khalid Alnajjar (eds.), Multilingual Facilitation, 153–169. Helsinki: University of Helsinki. doi:10.31885/9789515150257.15

Excel files:

• c17-data.xlsx = data from the 17th-century sample, 1640–1660
• c18-data.xlsx = data from the 18th-century sample, 1760–1780

Sheets within the files:

• data = all neologism tokens found and their metadata from the OED and the CEEC
• sample = list of all letters in the sample and their metadata from the CEEC

See readme.txt for more information.