Publications

Authors:

Facchinetti, Roberta; Matti, Rissanen

Title:

Corpus-based Studies of Diachronic English

Year:

2006

Type of item:

Contributo in atti di convegno

Tipologia ANVUR:

Contributo in Atti di convegno

Language:

Inglese

Format:

A Stampa

Name of journal:

Linguistic Insights

N° Volume:

1

Congresso:

25th Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English

Place:

University of Verona

Period:

18-23 May 2004

:

Peter Lang

Publisher:

Peter Lang

ISBN:

9783039108510

Page numbers:

1-300

Keyword:

The role of historical corpora in linguistic studies; Issues in the compilation of historical corpora; Spoken and written registers; Historical genre analysis; Historical contrastive studies; History of specialized languages; Regional variation; Historical sociolinguistics

Short description of contents:

The book will be of help to corpus linguists around the world, to scholars interested in historical linguistics, to contras-tive linguists, to sociolinguists, and to variationists in general. Students and teachers of English and of Linguistics at undergraduate and graduate level worldwide will also find this book of interest

Note:

Corpus-based studies of diachronic English have been thriving over the last three decades to such an extent that the validity of corpora in the enrichment of historical linguistic research is now undeniable. The present book is a collection of papers illustrating the state of the art in corpus-based research on diachronic English, by means of case-study expositions, software presentations, and theoretical discussions on the topic. 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. A number of typological and geographical varieties of English are tackled in the book: from general to specialized English, from British to Australian English, from written to speech-related registers. In order to discuss their tenets, the contributors draw on corpora and dictionaries from different centuries, including the most recent ones; hence, they testify to the fact that past and present are so strongly interlocked and so inextricably entwined that it proves hard – if not preposterous – to fully understand Present-day English structure and features without turning back to the previous centuries for an in-depth knowledge of the ‘whys’ and ‘hows’ of the current state of the art. Introduction by Roberta Facchinetti and Matti Rissanen

Product ID:

66425

Handle IRIS:

11562/244797

Deposited On:

March 6, 2012

Last Modified:

November 1, 2022

Bibliographic citation:

Facchinetti, Roberta; Matti, Rissanen, Corpus-based Studies of Diachronic English in «Linguistic Insights» vol. 1 Peter Lang  in Corpus-based Studies of Diachronic English , Peter Lang , Proceedings of "25th Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English" , University of Verona , 18-23 May 2004 , 2006 , pp. 1-300

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