In Memoriam József Herman: von der Late Latin Data Base bis zur Computerized Historical Linguistic Database of Latin Inscriptions of the Imperial Age.

The aim of the project entitled "Computerized Historical Linguistic Database of Latin Inscriptions of the Imperial Age" (http://lldb.elte.hu/) is to develop and digitally publish a fundamental computerized historical linguistic database that incorporates and treats the Vulgar Latin material of the Latin inscriptions from a specific group of the European provinces of the Roman Empire in the first phase. This will, on the one hand, allow for a more thorough study of the regional changes and the diversity of the Latin language of the Imperial Age. On the other hand, it could also serve as a basis for subsequent international co-operation, in the course of which further work on the computerized historical linguistic database may be executed. This paper intends to present the past and the present, as well as the future possibilities of this Database.