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Zusatztext undoubtedly constitutes a milestone in recent scholarship on both the history of the English language and corpus analysis. Informationen zum Autor Terttu Nevalainen is Professor of English, University of Helsinki.Elizabeth Closs Traugott is Professor Emerita of Linguistics, Stanford University. Klappentext The availability of large electronic corpora has caused major shifts in linguistic research, including the ability to analyze much more data than ever before, and to perform micro-analyses of linguistic structures across languages. This has historical linguists to rethink many standard assumptions about language history, and methods and approaches that are relevant to the study of it. The field is now interested in, and attracts, specialists whose fields range from statistical modeling to acoustic phonetics. These changes have even transformed linguists' perceptions of the very processes of language change, particularly in English, the most studied language in historical linguistics due to the size of available data and its status as a global language. Zusammenfassung This ambitious Handbook takes advantage of recent advances in the study of the history of English to rethink the understanding of the field. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Contents Contributors Abbreviations Introduction: Rethinking and extending approaches to the history of the English language. (Terttu Nevalainen and Elizabeth Closs Traugott) --PART I. RETHINKING EVIDENCE --Guide to Part I. --Evidence 1. Lead Chapter: Evidence for the history of English: Introduction. (Susan Fitzmaurice and Jeremy Smith) 2. Evidence from sources prior to 1500. (Carole Hough) 3. Coins as evidence. (Philip Shaw) 4. Editing early English texts. (Simon Horobin) 5. Evidence from sources after 1500. (Joan C. Beal) 6. Examples of evidence from phonology 6.1 Middle English phonology in the digital age: What written corpora can tell us about sound change. (Nikolaus Ritt) 6.2 Evidence for sound-change from Scottish corpora. (Wendy Anderson) 6.3 GOAT vowel variants in the Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English (DECTE). (Karen P. Corrigan) 6.4 Analyzing the ONZE data as evidence for sound change. (Jennifer Hay) 7. Using dictionaries and thesauruses as evidence. (Julie Coleman) 8. Evidence from surveys and atlases in the history of the English language. (William A. Kretzschmar Jr. and Merja Stenroos) 9. Evidence from historical corpora up to the twentieth century. (Merja Kytö and Päivi Pahta) 10. Variability-based Neighbor Clustering: A bottom-up approach to periodization in historical linguistics. (Stefan Th. Gries and Martin Hilpert) 11. Data retrieval in a diachronic context: The case of the historical English courtroom (Dawn Archer) --Observing recent change through electronic corpora 12. Lead Chapter: Some methodological issues related to corpus-based investigations of recent syntactic changes in English. (Mark Davies) 13. "Small is beautiful " - On the value of standard reference corpora for observing recent grammatical change. (Marianne Hundt and Geoffrey Leech) 14. Exploring variation and change in New Englishes: Looking into the International Corpus of English (ICE) and beyond. (Joybrato Mukherjee and Marco Schilk) 15. Change in the English infinitival perfect construction. (Jill Bowie and Bas Aarts) 16. Revisiting the reduplicative copula with corpus-based evidence. (Anne Curzan) 17. Exploring aspects of the Great Complement Shift, with evidence from the TIME Corpus and COCA. (Juhani Rudanko) 18. Diachronic collostructional analysis meets the noun phrase: Studying many a noun in COHA. (Martin Hilpert) 19. From opportunistic to systematic use of the Web as corpus: do-support with got (to) in contemporary American English. (Christian Mair) --PART II. ISSUES IN CULTURE AND SOCIETY --Gui...
