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Register Studies
Vol. 1:1 (2019) ► pp.136–167

Register in historical linguistics

| Uppsala University

Merja Kytö is Professor of English Language at Uppsala University. In this article, she provides a detailed accounting of the role of register in research on the historical development of language. Her substantial body of work has focused on both the historical development of specific registers, as well as how historical change has been mediated by register. Her research has encompassed a range of time periods (from Early Modern English to the 19th century) and registers (for example, depositions, Salem witchcraft records, and dialogues). Her many edited collections have brought historical linguists together into comprehensive and rigorous volumes, including the Cambridge Handbook of English Historical Linguistics (Kytö & Pahta 2016, Cambridge University Press), English in Transition: Corpus-Based Studies in Linguistic Variation and Genre Styles (Rissanen, Kytö, & Heikkonen 1997, De Gruyter), and Developments in English: Expanding Electronic Evidence (Taavitsainen, Kytö, Claridge, & Smith 2014, Cambridge University Press). She has been a key contributor to the development of principled historical corpora, such as the Helsinki Corpus of English Texts project, which represents a range of registers from Old and Middle English to Early Modern English. Merja Kytö has long been a leader in demonstrating how systematic attention to register can result in rich profiles of historical development, and in addressing the inherent challenges involved in utilizing historical documents for linguistic research.

Keywords: language change, historical corpora, genre, variationist, multi-dimensional analysis, sociolinguistics, grammaticalization, colloquialization, standardization
Article outline
  • 1.How is register conceptualized in historical linguistics?
  • 2.How does register relate to the research goals within historical linguistics?
  • 3.What are the major methodological approaches that are used to analyze or account for register in historical linguistics?
  • 4.What does a typical register study look like in historical linguistics?
  • 5.What are the most promising areas of future register research in historical linguistics?
  • Corpora and other electronic resources
  • References


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Published online: 26 April 2019
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References

Corpora and other electronic resources

ARCHER, see A Representative Corpus of Historical English Registers

B-Brown-1931 Corpus

BLOB-1931 Corpus

British National Corpus (BNC)

British National Corpus 2014 (BNC2014)

Brown Corpus (The Standard Corpus of Present-Day Edited American English)

Cambridge International Corpus

Corpus of Early English Correspondence (CEEC)

Corpus of Early English Medical Writing (CEEM)

Corpus of Early Ontario English (CONTE)

A Corpus of English Dialogues 1560–1760 (CED)

Corpus of Historical American English (COHA)

Corpus of Late Modern English Texts Extended Version (CLMETEV)

A Corpus of Nineteenth-century English (CONCE)

Corpus of Oz Early English (COOEE)

Early English Books Online (EEBO)

Google Books

Helsinki Corpus (Helsinki Corpus of English Texts)

International Corpus of English Great Britain (ICE-GB)

Lancaster-Oslo/Bergen Corpus (LOB)

Literature Online (LION)

Old Bailey Corpus (OBC)

A Representative Corpus of Historical English Registers (ARCHER)

Spoken BNC2014

Zurich Newspaper English (ZEN)

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