“…It is laborious and slow work, and the pressure of time and deadlines usually meant that the scope of the investigation has to be restricted, whether in terms of the phenomena or in the quantity of the data perused. In addition, though the availability of old texts on the web is larger than ever before [1,3,5,11,12,22,19], most of the times they are produced only as a facsimile or, even if transcribed and edited, they are not linguistically annotated, at least for the words' parts-of-speech (PoS), i.e. morphosyntactic categories (noun, verb, adjective, etc.)…”