TY  - BOOK
AU  -  Whitt, Richard J,
TI  -  Diachronic corpora, genre, and language change
T2  -  Studies in corpus linguistics (SCL),
SN  -  9789027201485 (hardcover : alk. paper)
U1  -  417/.7  23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  -  Amsterdam,  Philadelphia
PB  -  John Benjamins Publishing Company
KW  -  Corpora (Linguistics)
KW  -  Historical linguistics
N1  -  Includes bibliographical references and index;  Preface and acknowledgments -- Using diachronic corpora to understan d the connection between genre and language change / Richard J. Whitt - - Part I: Methods in diachronic corpus linguistics: 'From above', 'from below', and regionally balanced: Towards a new corpus of nineteenth-ce ntury German / Konstantin Niehaus & Stephan Elspass -- Diachronic collo cations, genre, and DiaCollo / Bryan Jurish -- Classical and modern Ara bic corpora: Genre and language change / Eric Atwell -- Part II: Genre and diachronic corpora: Scholastic genre scripts in English medical wri ting 1375-1895 / Irma Taavitsainen -- Academic writing as a locus of gr ammatical change: The development of phrasal complexity features / Beth any Gray & Douglas Biber -- Genre-based analyses of linguistic phenomen a:the importance of genre in the greek diglossia of the 20th century: a diachronic corpus study of recent language change / Georgia Fragaki & Dionysis Goutsos -- "You can't control a thing like that": Genres and c hanges in Modern English: human impersonal pronouns / Florian Haas -- C oncessive conjunctions in written American English: Diachronic and genr e-related changes in frequency and semantics / Ole Schèutzler -- Variat ion of sentence length across time andâagenre: Influence on syntactic u sage in English / Karolina Rudnicka -- A comparison of multi-genre and single-genre corpora in the context of contact-induced change / Carola Trips & Achim Stein -- Some methodological issues in the corpus-based s tudy of morphosyntactic variation: The case of Old Spanish possessives / Andrâes Enrique-Arias -- The interplay between genre variation and sy ntax in a historical Low German corpus / Melissa Farasyn, George Walkde n, Sheila Watts & Anne Breitbarth -- Genre influence on word formation (change): A case study of German adjectival derivation / Luise Kempf -- Index
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