Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change

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Richard J. Whitt | University of Nottingham

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This volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of the intersecting fields of corpus linguistics, historical linguistics, and genre-based studies of language usage. Papers in this collection are devoted to presenting relevant methods pertinent to corpus-based studies of the connection between genre and language change, linguistic changes that occur in particular genres, and specific diachronic phenomena that are influenced by genre factors to greater and lesser degrees. Data are drawn from a number of languages, and the scope of the studies presented here is both short- and long-term, covering cases of recent change as well as more long-term alterations.

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 85] 2018. viii, 337 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.85

Table of Contents

Preface and acknowledgments | pp. vii–viii

Using diachronic corpora to understand the connection between genre and language change

Richard J. Whitt | pp. 1–16

Part I. Methods in diachronic corpus linguistics

‘From above’, ‘from below’, and regionally balanced: Towards a new corpus of nineteenth-century German

Konstantin Niehaus and Stephan Elspaß | pp. 17–40

Diachronic collocations, genre, and DiaCollo

Bryan Jurish | pp. 41–64

Classical and modern Arabic corpora: Genre and language change

Eric Atwell | pp. 65–92

Part II. Genre and diachronic corpora

Scholastic genre scripts in English medical writing 1375–1800

Irma Taavitsainen | pp. 93–116

Academic writing as a locus of grammatical change: The development of phrasal complexity features

Bethany Gray and Douglas Biber | pp. 117–146

Part III. 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 and Dionysis Goutsos | pp. 147–170

“You can’t control a thing like that”: Genres and changes in Modern English human impersonal pronouns

Florian Haas | pp. 171–194

Concessive conjunctions in written American English: Diachronic and genre-related changes in frequency and semantics

Ole Schützler | pp. 195–218

Variation of sentence length across time and genre: Influence on syntactic usage in English

Karolina Rudnicka | pp. 219–240

A comparison of multi-genre and single-genre corpora in the context of contact-induced change

Carola Trips and Achim Stein | pp. 241–260

Some methodological issues in the corpus-based study of morphosyntactic variation: The case of Old Spanish possessives

Andrés Enrique-Arias | pp. 261–280

The interplay between genre variation and syntax in a historical Low German corpus

Melissa Farasyn, George Walkden, Sheila Watts and Anne Breitbarth | pp. 281–300

Genre influence on word formation (change): A case study of German adjectival derivation

Luise Kempf | pp. 301–332

Index | pp. 333–338

“Overall, this collection affords a rich insight into diachronic corpus research on genre and language change. It not only broadens the view by including papers that adopt MLR, differing approaches and cover a wide range of languages, but also stresses the importance of the variable ‘genre’ for (historical) corpus research.”

Jan Niklas Heinrich, Europa University Flensburg, in Modern Language Review 114(4), pp. 841-843 (2019)

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