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• Title:Diachronic corpora, genre, and language change / edited by Richard J. Whitt.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Whitt, Richard J., editor.
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• Published/Created:Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]
  

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  • Call Number: P128.C68
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Corpora (Linguistics)
  Historical linguistics.
  
• Subject(s):Electronic books.
  
• Description:1 online resource (viii, 337 pages) :
  
• Series:Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 85.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 08, 2018).
  
• ISBN:9789027263506 electronic book
  9027263507 electronic book
  9789027201485 hardcover
  
• Contents: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 1375-1800 / Irma Taavitsainen
  Academic writing as a locus of grammatical change: The development of phrasal complexity features / Bethany Gray & Douglas Biber
  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 & 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 and genre: 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.