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Corpus-based Analysis and Diachronic Linguistics

Author : Yuji Kawaguchi,Makoto Minegishi,Wolfgang Viereck
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027207708

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Corpus-based Analysis and Diachronic Linguistics by Yuji Kawaguchi,Makoto Minegishi,Wolfgang Viereck Pdf

Nowadays, linguists do not question the existence of synchronic variation, and the dichotomy between synchrony and diachrony. They recognize that synchrony can be motivated regionally (diatopic variation), sociolinguistically (diastratic variation), or stylistically (diaphasic variation). But, further, they can also recognize the hybrid nature of synchrony, which is referred to as "dynamic synchrony." This conception of synchrony assumes that similar patterns of usage can coexist in a community during a certain period and that their mutual relations are not static but conflicting enough to result in a future systematic change through symptomatic synchronic variation. Emergence of a large corpus of written texts for some languages has enabled quantitative as well as qualitative analyses of the synchronic conditions for diachronic changes, over both long and short spans of time. Most of the 14 papers in this volume represent studies on synchronic and diachronic variations based on such corpus data. For sale in all countries except Japan. For customers in Japan: please contact Yushodo Co.

Variation and change in the lexicon

Author : Mark Kaunisto
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401204644

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Variation and change in the lexicon by Mark Kaunisto Pdf

The present volume is a corpus-based study of the occurrence, variation, and change in the use of English adjective pairs in -ic and -ical over several centuries. The study involves the analysis of large, multi-million-word corpora representing the English language at various stages. It examines the nature of competition between the two affixes: what kind of rivalry existed, what kinds of words entered into competition, and in what ways the rivalry was resolved. The book presents close studies of six notably differentiated -ic/-ical adjective pairs, namely classic/classical, comic/comical, economic/economical, electric/electrical, historic/historical, and magic/magical, as well as commentaries on some 40 other -ic/-ical pairs, which manifest different types of shifts in use through history. It also includes critical discussion of general perceptions on and approaches to the practical use of corpora, stressing the importance of close and careful study of the materials under analysis. It further emphasises the value of consulting a variety of sources alongside corpora, including dictionaries and language usage manuals. This volume is of interest to language scholars in many fields, including corpus linguistics, diachronic linguistics, semantic change, lexicology, and word formation.

Corpus-based Studies of Diachronic English

Author : Matti Rissanen
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3039108514

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Corpus-based Studies of Diachronic English by Matti Rissanen Pdf

The majority of these papers were delivered at the 25th Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), held at the University of Verona on 18-23 May 2004

Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics

Author : Irma Taavitsainen,Andreas H. Jucker,Jukka Tuominen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270719

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Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics by Irma Taavitsainen,Andreas H. Jucker,Jukka Tuominen Pdf

Diachronic corpus pragmatics extends the pragmatic perspective to developments in the history of various languages and uses corpus-linguistic methods to trace them. The chapters in this volume focus on linguistic elements at several levels, from individual words to phrases, clauses and entire genres and discourse forms. Using the most recent corpus tools, the authors investigate correlations between forms, functions and contexts in diachronic case studies that combine quantitative precision with close qualitative interpretation. The articles deal with different languages including English, Dutch, Swedish, Italian, Spanish, Finnish, Estonian and Japanese, bringing their research traditions in pragmatics and corpus linguistics in dialogue with each other. This is the first time that such a wide range of languages has been brought together to showcase an exciting new field at the intersection of pragmatics, historical linguistics and corpus methodology.

Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change

Author : Richard J. Whitt
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263506

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Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change by Richard J. Whitt Pdf

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.

An Introduction to Corpus Linguistics

Author : Graeme Kennedy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317892571

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An Introduction to Corpus Linguistics by Graeme Kennedy Pdf

The use of large, computerized bodies of text for linguistic analysis and description has emerged in recent years as one of the most significant and rapidly-developing fields of activity in the study of language. This book provides a comprehensive introduction and guide to Corpus Linguistics. All aspects of the field are explored, from the various types of electronic corpora that are available to instructions on how to design and compile a corpus. Graeme Kennedy surveys the development of corpora for use in linguistic research, looking back to the pre-electronic age as well as to the massive growth of computer corpora in the electronic age.

Corpus Linguistics 25 Years on

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401204347

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Corpus Linguistics 25 Years on by Anonim Pdf

This volume offers a state-of-the-art picture of work undertaken in the field of computer-aided corpus linguistics. While the focus is on English, central insights can be generalised to other languages, as well. As a work intended to mark the Silver Jubilee of ICAME, the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English, the book combines surveys of the discipline by some of its major pioneers, including founders of ICAME itself, with cutting-edge work by younger scholars. It is divided into three sections: “Overviewing years of corpus linguistic studies”, “Descriptive studies in English syntax and semantics”, and “Second Language Acquisition, parallel corpora and specialist corpora”. The book bears witness to the impressive advances that have characterised the development of corpus linguistics over the past few decades – from terminological issues to practical applications, from theoretical and descriptive research to applied approaches, from monolingual to multilingual and specialist corpora, from corpus design to corpus exploitation tools.

New Methods in Historical Corpora

Author : Paul Durrell, Martin Scheible, Silke Whitt, Richard J. Bennett
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783823367604

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New Methods in Historical Corpora by Paul Durrell, Martin Scheible, Silke Whitt, Richard J. Bennett Pdf

Investigating the history of a language depends on fragmentary sources, but electronic corpora offer the possibility of alleviating the problem of 'bad data'. But they cannot overcome it totally, and questions arise of the optimal architecture for a corpus and its representativeness of actual language use, and how a historical corpus can best be annotated to maximize its usefulness. Immense strides have been made in recent years in addressing these questions, with exciting new methods and technological advances. The papers in this volume, which were presented at a conference on New Methods in Historical Corpora (Manchester 2011), exemplify the wide range of these recent developments.

Corpus Analysis and Variation in Linguistics

Author : Yuji Kawaguchi,Makoto Minegishi,Jacques Durand
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027207685

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Corpus Analysis and Variation in Linguistics by Yuji Kawaguchi,Makoto Minegishi,Jacques Durand Pdf

This new edition of TUFS Studies in Linguistics, we aim to showcase the various linguistics research conducted at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. In this first volume, we report on the international symposium hosted by the Global Center of Excellence Program "Corpus-based Linguistics and Language Education (CbLLE)" throughout 2008.

Corpus-based Research on Variation in English Legal Discourse

Author : Teresa Fanego,Paula Rodríguez-Puente
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027262837

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Corpus-based Research on Variation in English Legal Discourse by Teresa Fanego,Paula Rodríguez-Puente Pdf

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the research carried out over the past thirty years in the vast field of legal discourse. The focus is on how such research has been influenced and shaped by developments in corpus linguistics and register analysis, and by the emergence from the mid 1990s of historical pragmatics as a branch of pragmatics concerned with the scrutiny of historical texts in their context of writing. The five chapters in Part I (together with the introductory chapter) offer a wide spectrum of the latest approaches to the synchronic analysis of cross-genre and cross-linguistic variation in legal discourse. Part II addresses diachronic variation, illustrating how a diversity of methods, such as multi-dimensional analysis, move analysis, collocation analysis, and Darwinian models of language evolution can uncover new understandings of diachronic linguistic phenomena.

Corpus-based Language Studies

Author : Tony McEnery,Richard Xiao,Yukio Tono
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0415286220

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Corpus-based Language Studies by Tony McEnery,Richard Xiao,Yukio Tono Pdf

Covering the major approaches to the use of corpus data, this work gathers together influential readings from leading names in the discipline, including Biber, Widdowson, Sinclair, Carter and McCarthy.

Corpus-based Approaches to Register Variation

Author : Elena Seoane,Douglas Biber
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027258458

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Corpus-based Approaches to Register Variation by Elena Seoane,Douglas Biber Pdf

As the first collective volume to focus exclusively on corpus-based approaches to register variation, this book provides an exhaustive account of the range and depth of possibilities that the domain of register variation in English has to offer. It illustrates register variation analysis in different theoretical frameworks, such as Probabilistic Grammar, Systemic Functional Linguistics, and Information Theory, and proposes a new framework within the Text Linguistic Approach: the continuous-situational analytical framework. Several of the contributions apply Multi-Dimensional Analysis to corpus data in order to unveil register (dis)similarities, while others rely on logistic regression models and periodization techniques based on Kullback-Leibler divergence. The volume includes both inter-register and intra-register variation analysis of a wide spectrum of varieties, speakers and periods: British and American English, learner varieties, L2 varieties, and also contains diachronic studies covering early and late Modern English. This broad scope should be a source of inspiration for anyone interested in historical and ongoing register variation in a vast range of varieties of English worldwide.

Corpus Linguistics - An Introduction to the Field and its Use in Linguistics

Author : Theresa Rass
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783656047148

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Corpus Linguistics - An Introduction to the Field and its Use in Linguistics by Theresa Rass Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2, University of Innsbruck (Anglistik), course: Synchronic and/or Diachronic English Linguistics: English Syntax and Morphology, language: English, abstract: This paper is dealing with the topic of corpus linguistics. It tries to give an overview about this topic, as I think that, although it already gained popularity, not everyone is familiar with it. First, I want to explain what a corpus actually is, and what it is useful for. The different types of corpora will be described and also potential risks of depending to much on computer-processable corpora. Then the focus shifts to the fields of application of corpus linguistics, and also the use in syntax and morphology is discussed. I will also try to illustrate the opportunities a corpus provides by using an example for better understanding. The main aim of this paper is to give an overview about corpus linguistics and the fields of application, with attention to syntax and morphology.

Studies in Corpus-Based Sociolinguistics

Author : Eric Friginal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781315527796

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Studies in Corpus-Based Sociolinguistics by Eric Friginal Pdf

Studies in Corpus-Based Sociolinguistics illustrates how sociolinguistic approaches and linguistic distributions from corpora can be effectively combined to produce meaningful studies of language use and language variation. Three major parts comprise the volume focusing on: (1) Corpora and the Study of Languages and Dialects, in particular, varieties of global Englishes; (2) Corpora and Social Demographics; and (3) Corpora and Register Characteristics. The 14 peer-reviewed, new, and original chapters explore language variation related to regional dialectology, gender, sexuality, age, race, ‘nation,’ workplace discourse, diachronic change, and social media and web registers. Invited contributors made use of systematically-designed general and specialized corpora, sound research questions, methodologies (e.g., keyword analysis, multi-dimensional analysis, clusters, and collocations), and logical/credible interpretive techniques. Studies in Corpus-Based Sociolinguistics is an important resource for researchers and graduate students in the fields of sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, and applied linguistics.

Quantitative Historical Linguistics

Author : Gard B. Jenset,Barbara McGillivray
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191028014

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Quantitative Historical Linguistics by Gard B. Jenset,Barbara McGillivray Pdf

This book is an innovative guide to quantitative, corpus-based research in historical and diachronic linguistics. Gard B. Jenset and Barbara McGillivray argue that, although historical linguistics has been successful in using the comparative method, the field lags behind other branches of linguistics with respect to adopting quantitative methods. Here they provide a theoretically agnostic description of a new framework for quantitatively assessing models and hypotheses in historical linguistics, based on corpus data and using case studies to illustrate how this framework can answer research questions in historical linguistics. The authors offer an in-depth explanation and discussion of the benefits of working with quantitative methods, corpus data, and corpus annotation, and the advantages of open and reproducible research. The book will be a valuable resource for graduate students and researchers in historical linguistics, as well as for all those working with linguistic corpora.