03300cam a2200337 i 4500 20708154 20190305115200.0 181016s2018 ne a b 001 0 eng 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg acquire 1 shelf copy policy default ce04 2018-10-16 ce04 2018 -10-16 to Dewey xm07 2018-10-16 xn13 2019-01-04 1 copy rec'd., to CIP ver. xk25 2019-01-22 to CALM 2018027602 9789027201485 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9789027263506 (e-book) DLC eng DLC rda DLC pcc P128.C68 D53 2018 417/.7 23 Diachronic corpora, genre, and language change / edited by Richard J. Whitt. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018] viii, 337 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Studies in corpus linguistics (SCL), 1388-0373 ; Volume 85 Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Corpora (Linguistics) Historical linguistics. Whitt, Richard J, editor. Online version: Diachronic corpora, genre, and language change Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018 9789027263506 (DLC) 2018050031