Parallel corpora. A real-time approach to the study of language change in progress

Parallel corpora. A real-time approach to the study of language change in progress

The paper draws data from four matching one-million word corpora, namely Brown (US, 1961), LOB (GB, 1961), Frown (US, 1992) and FLOB (GB, 1991), in order to provide an integrated description of synchronic (regional and stylistic) variation and short-term diachronic change in written Standard English...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Christian Mair
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza Iași 2015-01-01
Series:Diacronia
Subjects:
corpus linguistics
language change
contemporary English
parallel corpora
informality
Online Access:http://www.diacronia.ro/ro/journal/issue/4/A6/en/pdf

Internet

http://www.diacronia.ro/ro/journal/issue/4/A6/en/pdf

Similar Items