In:Writing History in Late Modern English: Explorations of the Coruña Corpus
Edited by Isabel Moskowich, Begoña Crespo, Luis Puente-Castelo and Leida Maria Monaco
[Not in series 225] 2019
► pp. 57–81
Chapter 4Typical linguistic patterns of English History texts from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century
An information-theoretic approach
Published online: 9 October 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.225.04deg
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.225.04deg
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Data and methodology
- 2.1Corpora
- 2.2Detecting and inspecting variation with information-theoretic measures
- 2.2.1Feature detection
- 2.2.2Feature inspection
- 3.Analyses
- 3.1Typical linguistic patterns of CHET
- 3.2Productivity of typical patterns
- 3.2.1Nominal patterns with prepositional phrases
- 3.2.2To-infinitive
- 4.Summary and discussion
Notes References
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