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Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change
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This volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of the intersecting fields of corpus linguistics, historical linguistics, and genre-based studies of language usage. Papers in this collection are devoted to presenting relevant methods pertinent to corpus-based studies of the connection between genre and language change, linguistic changes that occur in particular genres, and specific diachronic phenomena that are influenced by genre factors to greater and lesser degrees. Data are drawn from a number of languages, and the scope of the studies presented here is both short- and long-term, covering cases of recent change as well as more long-term alterations.
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 85] 2018. viii, 337 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 23 October 2018
Published online on 23 October 2018
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Preface and acknowledgments
- Using diachronic corpora to understand the connection between genre and language changeRichard J. Whitt | pp. 1–16
- Part I. Methods in diachronic corpus linguistics
- ‘From above’, ‘from below’, and regionally balanced: Towards a new corpus of nineteenth-century GermanKonstantin Niehaus and Stephan Elspaß | pp. 17–40
- Diachronic collocations, genre, and DiaColloBryan Jurish | pp. 41–64
- Classical and modern Arabic corpora: Genre and language changeEric Atwell | pp. 65–92
- Part II. Genre and diachronic corpora
- Scholastic genre scripts in English medical writing 1375–1800Irma Taavitsainen | pp. 93–116
- Academic writing as a locus of grammatical change: The development of phrasal complexity featuresBethany Gray and Douglas Biber | pp. 117–146
- Part III. Genre-based analyses of linguistic phenomena
- The importance of genre in the Greek diglossia of the 20th century: A diachronic corpus study of recent language changeGeorgia Fragaki and Dionysis Goutsos | pp. 147–170
- “You can’t control a thing like that”: Genres and changes in Modern English human impersonal pronounsFlorian Haas | pp. 171–194
- Concessive conjunctions in written American English: Diachronic and genre-related changes in frequency and semanticsOle Schützler | pp. 195–218
- Variation of sentence length across time and genre: Influence on syntactic usage in EnglishKarolina Rudnicka | pp. 219–240
- A comparison of multi-genre and single-genre corpora in the context of contact-induced changeCarola Trips and Achim Stein | pp. 241–260
- Some methodological issues in the corpus-based study of morphosyntactic variation: The case of Old Spanish possessivesAndrés Enrique-Arias | pp. 261–280
- The interplay between genre variation and syntax in a historical Low German corpusMelissa Farasyn, George Walkden, Sheila Watts and Anne Breitbarth | pp. 281–300
- Genre influence on word formation (change): A case study of German adjectival derivationLuise Kempf | pp. 301–332
- Index
“Overall, this collection affords a rich insight into diachronic corpus research on genre and language change. It not only broadens the view by including papers that adopt MLR, differing approaches and cover a wide range of languages, but also stresses the importance of the variable ‘genre’ for (historical) corpus research.”
Jan Niklas Heinrich, Europa University Flensburg, in Modern Language Review 114(4), pp. 841-843 (2019)
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