Editorial Introduction to the Third Issue

Linguistics had a strong presence at the TEI’s beginnings, being represented by names as significant as those of Nancy Ide, Donald E. Walker, and Antonio Zampolli. Linguistics was mentioned explicitly in the names of two of its three founding organizations: Association for Computers and the Humanities, Association for Computational Linguistics, and Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing. It was the main focus of one of the four initial committees (http://www.tei-c.org/​Vault/​AB/​abj01.txt) and, within several years of the inception of the work on the TEI Guidelines, the British National Corpus clearly demonstrated the TEI’s usefulness for encoding language resources.