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Writing History in Late Modern English: Explorations of the Coruña Corpus
Edited by Isabel Moskowich, Begoña Crespo, Luis Puente-Castelo and Leida Maria Monaco
[Not in series 225] 2019
► pp. 57–81

Chapter 4
Typical linguistic patterns of English History texts from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century

An information-theoretic approach

 | Universität des Saarlandes
 | Universität des Saarlandes
 | Universität des Saarlandes
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Data and methodology
    • 2.1Corpora
    • 2.2Detecting and inspecting variation with information-theoretic measures
      • 2.2.1Feature detection
      • 2.2.2Feature inspection
  • 3.Analyses
    • 3.1Typical linguistic patterns of CHET
    • 3.2Productivity of typical patterns
      • 3.2.1Nominal patterns with prepositional phrases
      • 3.2.2To-infinitive
  • 4.Summary and discussion
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 9 October 2019
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