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A Corpus of Portuguese Historical and Metalinguistic Grammars (1536–1864) Cover

A Corpus of Portuguese Historical and Metalinguistic Grammars (1536–1864)

Journal of Open Humanities Data
Volume 12 (2026): Issue 1
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|May 2026
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Table 1

The Six Portuguese Grammars included in the database.

BIRTH6AUTHORTITLEPUB.WORDS
1496João de BarrosGrammatica da Lingua Portuguesa154023,873
1507Fernão de OliveiraGrammatica da Lingoagem Portuguesa153622,974
1530Duarte Nunes de LeãoOrigem da Lingoa Portuguesa160621,263
1671Luís Caetano de LimaOrthographia da Lingua Portugueza173626,997
1736Bernardo de Lima e Mélo BacellarGrammatica Philosophica e Orthographia Racional da Lingua Portugueza178325,219
1823Francisco Júlio Caldas AuleteGrammatica Nacional186421,353
Figure 1

Transkribus interface showing a 1536 Oliveira grammar facsimile page and transcription.

Figure 2

Transkribus interface showing a 1540 Barros grammar facsimile page and transcription.

Table 2

portuguese_grammars.db Internal Structure.

portuguese_grammars.db
grammarscorpus_info
id(PK)[INTEGER]Key (PK)[TEXT]
author_name[TEXT]Value[TEXT]
author_birth_year[INTEGER](Contains metadata, licence and readme)
Title[TEXT]
publication_year[INTEGER]
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.542 | Journal eISSN: 2059-481X
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Language: English
Page range: 65 - 65
Submitted on: Mar 26, 2026
Accepted on: May 7, 2026
Published on: May 20, 2026
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
Portuguese,
historical grammars,
automatic text recognition,
diachronic linguistics,
digital humanities

© 2026 Saulo Rogério Pacheco Rocha, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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