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Middle and Modern English Corpus Linguistics
A multi-dimensional approach
This book brings together a variety of approaches to English corpus linguistics and shows how corpus methodologies can contribute to the linking of diachronic and synchronic studies. The articles in this volume investigate historical changes in the English language as well as specific aspects of Middle and Modern English and, moreover, of English dialects. The contributions also discuss the development of English corpus linguistics generally and its potential in the future. Special focus is given to the continuity between Middle and Modern English – much in line with the linking in previous studies of Middle English and Old English under the generic term “medievalism”. This volume highlights the continual development of English from the medieval to modern period.
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 50] 2012. viii, 287 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 22 March 2012
Published online on 22 March 2012
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- List of abbreviations | pp. vii–viii
- IntroductionManfred Markus, Yoko Iyeiri, Reinhard Heuberger and Emil Chamson | pp. 1–10
- Corpus linguistics today and tomorrow
- Can’t see the wood for the trees? Corpora and the study of Late Modern EnglishJoan C. Beal | pp. 13–30
- Spelling variation in Middle English manuscripts: The case for an integrated corpus approachStefan Diemer | pp. 31–46
- Aspects of language change
- The development of compound numerals in English Biblical translationsIsao Hashimoto | pp. 49–58
- The complements of causative make in Late Middle EnglishYoko Iyeiri | pp. 59–74
- The pragmaticalization and intensification of verily, truly and really: A corpus-based study on the developments of three truth-identifying adverbsTine Defour | pp. 75–92
- Concept-driven semasiology and onomasiology of CLERGY: Focus on the lexicogenesis of pope, bishop and priestSylwester Lodej | pp. 93–108
- ANGER and TĒNE in Middle EnglishHans-Jürgen Diller | pp. 109–124
- Middle and Modern English case studies
- The subjunctive vs. modal auxiliaries: Lest-clauses in Late Middle English prose textsNamiko Kikusawa | pp. 127–140
- Some notes on the distribution of the quantifier all in Middle EnglishTomohiro Yanagi | pp. 141–156
- Interjections in Middle English: Chaucer’s “Reeve’s Tale” and the Corpus of Middle English Prose and VerseHans Sauer | pp. 157–176
- Why and what in Early Modern English dramaUrsula Lutzky | pp. 177–190
- Colloquialization and not-contraction in nineteenth-century EnglishErik Smitterberg | pp. 191–206
- Wright’s English Dialect Dictionary and thereafter
- The complexity and diversity of the words in Wright’s English Dialect DictionaryManfred Markus | pp. 209–224
- Etymology in the English Dialect DictionaryEmil Chamson | pp. 225–240
- Towards an understanding of Joseph Wright’s sources: White Kennett’s Parochial Antiquities (1695) and the English Dialect DictionaryJavier Ruano-García | pp. 241–256
- The importance of being Janus: Midland speakers and the “North-South Divide”Clive Upton | pp. 257–268
- ... ging uns der ganze alte Dialektbegriff in eine Illusion auf: The deterritorialization of dialects in the 20th and 21st centuriesChristian Mair | pp. 269–284
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