Computerized Historical Linguistic Database of the Latin Inscriptions of the Imperial Age: Search and Charting Modules.

The present paper serves as an introduction and basic presentation of the Computerized Historical Linguistic Database of the Latin Inscriptions of the Imperial Age. Our intention is to let the wider public of professionals interested in the project learn more about how it can assist investigations in the dialectology of the Latin language concerning Roman inscriptions through a special linguistic approach, with the help of modern information technology. After briefly outlining the aims, the antecedents and the theoretical foundations of the project, some practical elements, first of all the search and charting modules of the Database will be described, since the basic units or building blocks of the Database, the data forms (or data sheets), together with the (pre)history of the project, have already been presented by Adamik 2009 in detail.