El CEOD: un archivo de la escritura epistolar italiana del siglo XIX

After assessing the quality of letters as documentation for linguistic analysis, this article presents the potential of the Corpus Epistolare Ottocentesco Digitale (CEOD), which intends to be a tool for researchers. The CEOD allows historians and linguistic researchers to read the transcription of original letters written during the XIXth century. The system is also able to tag most of the circumstances of the texts and the scribes’ interventions in them. This paper shows the powerful search system that allows the combined analysis of the contents and items of interest for linguistics, philologists and lexicographers.