The most recent release of the PPCHE (https://www.ling.upenn.edu/hist-corpora/index-2024.html) is unfortunately no longer available on github, as my posting on github infringed on prior distribution rights by the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC).

I respectfully request those of you who have downloaded the corpora from github to refrain from distributing them further, and I apologize for any inconvenience caused by my misunderstanding of the distribution rights at issue.

As of July 2025, a second edition of PPCHE (PPCHE2) is available from LDC (https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T09).

The release contains parsed and POS-tagged versions of PPCHE2's three subcorpora (Middle English, Early Modern English, and Modern British English). For the last two subcorpora, lemmatized versions of the parsed texts exist, but they are not part of the LDC release. The /lemmatization/patch directory of this repository contains scripts with instructions that allow you to generate lemmatized versions of the parsed files in the release. You will need to download the entire ppche2-2025 repository to gain access to the subdirectory. The instructions cover only the patching process. The lemmatization guidelines are discussed in a section of the current annotation manual (https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/corpus-ling/annotation-2022/; see also https://github.com/beatrice57/annotation-guidelines-for-ppche).

Use of the lemmatized versions of the texts in the PPCHE2 is governed by the same conditions as the LDC release itself, namely by the Penn Parsed Corpora of Historical English Second Release Agreement.