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Format: 1 online resource (347 pages)

ISBN: 90-272-6350-7

Series Statement: Studies in Corpus Linguistics ; Volume 85

Note: 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 -- Index.

Additional Edition: ISBN 90-272-0148-X

Language: English