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Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change
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Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change.
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018.
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Print version: Whitt, Richard J. Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company,c2018
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Studies in Corpus Linguistics Ser. ; v.85
Contents
Intro
Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change
Editorial page
Title page
Copyright page
Table of contents
Preface and acknowledgments
Using diachronic corpora to understand the connection between genre and language change
1. Introduction
2. What is genre?
3. Diachronic corpora: Challenges in design, compilation, and use
4. Some diachronic corpora
5. The present volume
6. Reflection
References
'From above', 'from below', and regionally balanced
1. Introduction
2. Motivation for a (new) corpus of nineteenth-century German
3. Methodology: Towards a new corpus of nineteenth-century German
3.1 Existing corpora of nineteenth-century German and their limits for variational analysis
3.2 A new corpus: The Corpus of Nineteenth-Century German (NiCe German Corpus)
4. Case studies
4.1 Ausklammerung
4.2 Diminutive -chen/-gen/-lein
4.3 Noun plural forms with or without Umlaut (Wägen/Wagen)
4.4 Other features and future research
5. Summary and conclusion
Acknowledgement
References
Diachronic collocations, genre, and DiaCollo
1. Introduction
2. Related work
3. Implementation
3.1 Overview
3.2 Corpus data
3.3 Co-occurrence frequencies
3.3.1 Native co-occurrence relation
3.3.2 Term × document matrix co-occurrence relation
3.3.3 DDC co-occurrence relation
3.4 Scoring and pruning
3.5 Comparisons
3.6 Output &
visualization
4. Examples
4.1 Adjectival attribution: What makes a "man"?
4.2 Pronominal adverbs and deictic locality
5. Conclusion
Classical and modern Arabic corpora
1. Classical Arabic corpora for religious education and understanding
1.1 Quranic Arabic Corpus
1.2 QurAna: Quran pronoun anaphoric co-reference corpus
1.3 QurSim: Quran verse similarity corpus.
1.4 Qurany: Classical Arabic Quran with English translations and verse topics
1.5 Boundary-Annotated Quran Corpus
1.6 Quran Question and Answer Corpus
1.7 Multilingual Hadith Corpus
1.8 KSUCCA King Saud University Corpus of Classical Arabic
1.9 Corpus for teaching about Islam
2. Modern Arabic corpora for language teaching, lexicography, and text analytics
2.1 ABC: Arabic By Computer
2.2 CCA: Corpus of Contemporary Arabic
2.3 Arabic Internet Corpus
2.4 World Wide Arabic Corpus
2.5 Arabic Discourse Treebank
2.6 Arabic Learner Corpus
2.7 Arabic Children's Corpus
2.8 Arabic Dialect Text Corpus
3. Machine learning from the Quran for Modern Arabic text analytics
References
Scholastic genre scripts in English medical writing 1375-1800
1. Introduction
2. Aim
3. Approach
4. Data
5. Methodology
6. Commentary scripts in the vernacular
6.1 Middle English
6.2 Sixteenth-century texts
7. Compilations and combinations of genre scripts
7.1 Middle English
7.2 Sixteenth-century texts
8. Seventeenth-century afterlives of scholastic treatises
8.1 Professional audiences
8.2 The "debased" trend of scholastic argumentation
9. Eighteenth-century texts
9.1 Texts for professional audiences
9.2 Pseudo-science
10. A new ranking order of scholastic features
11. The diachronic line in a new perspective
12. Conclusions
Corpora
References
Academic writing as a locus of grammatical change
1. Introduction
1.1 Colloquialization in writing
1.2 Register features of present-day academic writing
1.3 Two types of historical development: The need for quantitative corpus-based research
1.4 Goals of the study
2. Corpora and analytical methods.
3. The historical evolution of academic writing: Quantitative increases and functional extensions of phrasal complexity features
3.1 General patterns of historical change: Phrasal and clausal complexity features
3.2 Nouns as noun pre-modifiers across written registers
3.3 Prepositional phrases as noun post-modifiers across written registers
4. Summing up: Academic writing as a locus of historical change
References
The importance of genre in the Greek diglossia of the 20th century
1. Introduction
2. Data and methodology
3. Grammatical words in diachrony
4. Discussion and conclusions
Acknowledgments
References
"You can't control a thing like that"
1. Introduction
2. Human impersonal pronouns
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Human impersonal pronouns in earlier English
3. A corpus study on the Modern English HIP you
3.1 The corpus and data extraction
3.2 Quantitative observations
4. Changes in English genres
4.1 Genres throughout Modern English
4.2 The role of second-person pronouns
5. Has impersonal you changed, after all?
5.1 Impersonal vs. deictic you
5.2 Simulation
5.3 Self-reference
5.4 A comparative view
5.5 How 'involved' are second-person impersonals?
6. Conclusion
Acknowledgments
References
Concessive conjunctions in written American English
1. Introduction
2. Research background
2.1 Three semantic types of concessives
2.2 The stylistics of concessive conjunctions
2.3 Research questions
3. Methodology
4. Results
4.1 Corpus examples
4.2 Frequencies
4.3 Semantics
5. Summary and outlook
References
Appendix
Variation of sentence length across time and genre
1. Introduction
2. Sentence length in written English: The diachronic evolution across genres
2.1 Just a matter of punctuation conventions?.
3. A comprehensive analysis of sentence length in the time period of 1800-2000
3.1 Design of the analysis and methodology
3.1.1 Full-text COHA
3.1.2 Genres in COHA
3.1.3 Sentence tokenisation: Methodology
3.2 Results
3.3 Discussion
4. Sentence length and syntactic usage
5. Conclusions
Corpora
A comparison of multi-genre and single-genre corpora in the context of contact-induced change
1. Introduction
2. Passive and case
3. The rise of the recipient passive in English
3.1 Allen's (1995) study
3.2 Comparing results from a multi-genre and a single-genre corpus study
4. The language contact hypothesis
5. Conclusion
Acknowledgments
References
Some methodological issues in the corpus-based study of morphosyntactic variation
1. Introduction
2. Methodological issues in the study of morphosyntactic variation
2.1 The problem of the comparability of texts
2.2 The problem of the comparability of contexts of occurrence
2.3 The problem of the comparability of variants of the same variable
3. Parallel texts versus conventional corpora
3.1 The problem of the comparability of texts
3.2 The problem of the comparability of contexts of occurrence
3.3 The problem of the comparability of variants of the same variable
4. New insights in the study of possession in Old Spanish
5. Summary and conclusions
Acknowledgments
References
Appendix I
The interplay between genre variation and syntax in a historical Low German corpus
1. Introduction
2. A parsed corpus of Middle Low German
3. Syntactic variation and the role of genre in the corpus
3.1 Discourse markers
3.2 Null pronominal arguments
3.2.1 Referential null subjects
3.2.2 Pronominal gaps in alse-clauses
3.2.3 Null resumptives in non-restrictive relative clauses.
3.2.4 Pronominal gaps in asymmetric coordinations
4. Summary and outlook
References
Genre influence on word formation (change)
1. Introduction
2. State of research
3. Approach, corpora, and methods
4. Quantitative productivity measures
5. Distribution of suffixational patterns
6. Semantic, syntactic, and textual implications
7. Discussion and conclusion
Acknowledgments
References
Appendix
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