Quirky Quotes and Needles in the Haystack: Tracing Grammatical Change in Untagged Corpora

This paper discusses pivotal theoretical and methodological problems of historical corpus linguistics. In two case studies from Swedish language history, the development of the epistemic adverb kanske and the group genitive respectively, it illustrates how the use of qualitative method in addition t...

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Main Author: Muriel Norde
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Bern Open Publishing 2014-02-01
Series:Linguistik Online
Online Access:https://bop.unibe.ch/linguistik-online/article/view/1277
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description This paper discusses pivotal theoretical and methodological problems of historical corpus linguistics. In two case studies from Swedish language history, the development of the epistemic adverb kanske and the group genitive respectively, it illustrates how the use of qualitative method in addition to corpus investigation can contribute to understanding grammatical change.
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spelling doaj.art-a9de4119e63c43309bdee712c91b9c8e2022-12-21T20:06:21ZdeuBern Open PublishingLinguistik Online1615-30142014-02-0161410.13092/lo.61.1277Quirky Quotes and Needles in the Haystack: Tracing Grammatical Change in Untagged CorporaMuriel NordeThis paper discusses pivotal theoretical and methodological problems of historical corpus linguistics. In two case studies from Swedish language history, the development of the epistemic adverb kanske and the group genitive respectively, it illustrates how the use of qualitative method in addition to corpus investigation can contribute to understanding grammatical change.https://bop.unibe.ch/linguistik-online/article/view/1277
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Quirky Quotes and Needles in the Haystack: Tracing Grammatical Change in Untagged Corpora
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title Quirky Quotes and Needles in the Haystack: Tracing Grammatical Change in Untagged Corpora
title_full Quirky Quotes and Needles in the Haystack: Tracing Grammatical Change in Untagged Corpora
title_fullStr Quirky Quotes and Needles in the Haystack: Tracing Grammatical Change in Untagged Corpora
title_full_unstemmed Quirky Quotes and Needles in the Haystack: Tracing Grammatical Change in Untagged Corpora
title_short Quirky Quotes and Needles in the Haystack: Tracing Grammatical Change in Untagged Corpora
title_sort quirky quotes and needles in the haystack tracing grammatical change in untagged corpora
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