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Diachronic corpora, genre, and language change [electronic resource] / edited by Richard J. Whitt

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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018.
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Whitt, Richard J.
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Preface and acknowledgments -- Using diachronic corpora to understand 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-century German / Konstantin Niehaus & Stephan Elspass -- Diachronic collocations, genre, and DiaCollo / Bryan Jurish -- Classical and modern Arabic corpora: Genre and language change / Eric Atwell -- Part II: Genre and diachronic corpora: Scholastic genre scripts in English medical writing 1375-1895 / Irma Taavitsainen -- Academic writing as a locus of grammatical change: The development of phrasal complexity features / Bethany Gray & Douglas Biber -- 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 change / Georgia Fragaki & Dionysis Goutsos -- "You can't control a thing like that": Genres and changes in Modern English: human impersonal pronouns / Florian Haas -- Concessive conjunctions in written American English: Diachronic and genre-related changes in frequency and semantics / Ole Schützler -- Variation of sentence length across time andágenre: Influence on syntactic usage 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 study of morphosyntactic variation: The case of Old Spanish possessives / Andrés Enrique-Arias -- The interplay between genre variation and syntax in a historical Low German corpus / Melissa Farasyn, George Walkden, Sheila Watts & Anne Breitbarth -- Genre influence on word formation (change): A case study of German adjectival derivation / Luise Kempf -- Index.
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9789027263506 (pdf)
9789027201485 (hb)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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