About Johnson -- Our correspondents consider the use and abuse of languages around the world, in a blog named after the dictionary-maker Samuel Johnson
The Sketch Engine (SkE) is designed for anyone wanting to research how words behave. It is a Corpus Query System incorporating word sketches, one-page, automatic, corpus-derived summary of a word’s grammatical and collocational behaviour.
Treebanking is simply the act of writing down your interpretation of a sentence in the form of a linguistic annotation. All of it can be done online, and over 200 researchers from around the world have annotated more than 350,000 words of Classical Greek and Latin texts, including the entirety of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, all of the works of Hesiod and Aeschylus, Sophocles' Ajax, and excerpts from the works of Caesar, Cicero, Jerome, Ovid, Petronius, Propertius, Sallust and Vergil.