基本説明
This book brings together a variety of approaches to English corpus linguistics and shows how corpus methodologies can contribute to the linking of diachronic and synchronic studies. Special focus is given to the continuity between Middle and Modern English - much in line with the linking in previous studies of Middle English and Old English under the generic term "medievalism".
Full Description
This book brings together a variety of approaches to English corpus linguistics and shows how corpus methodologies can contribute to the linking of diachronic and synchronic studies. The articles in this volume investigate historical changes in the English language as well as specific aspects of Middle and Modern English and, moreover, of English dialects. The contributions also discuss the development of English corpus linguistics generally and its potential in the future. Special focus is given to the continuity between Middle and Modern English - much in line with the linking in previous studies of Middle English and Old English under the generic term "medievalism". This volume highlights the continual development of English from the medieval to modern period.
Contents
1. List of abbreviations; 2. Introduction (by Markus, Manfred); 3. Corpus linguistics today and tomorrow; 4. Can't see the wood for the trees?: Corpora and the study of Late Modern English (by Beal, Joan C.); 5. Spelling variation in Middle English manuscripts: The case for an integrated corpus approach (by Diemer, Stefan); 6. Aspects of language change; 7. The development of compound numerals in English Biblical translations (by Hashimoto, Isao); 8. The complements of causative make in Late Middle English (by Iyeiri, Yoko); 9. The pragmaticalization and intensification of verily, truly and really: A corpus-based study on the developments of three truth-identifying adverbs (by Defour, Tine); 10. Concept-driven semasiology and onomasiology of CLERGY: Focus on the lexicogenesis of pope, bishop and priest (by Lodej, Sylwester); 11. ANGER and TENE in Middle English (by Diller, Hans-Jurgen); 12. Middle and Modern English case studies; 13. The subjunctive vs. modal auxiliaries: Lest-clauses in Late Middle English prose texts (by Kikusawa, Namiko); 14. Some notes on the distribution of the quantifier all in Middle English (by Yanagi, Tomohiro); 15. Interjections in Middle English: Chaucer's "Reeve's Tale" and the Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse (by Sauer, Hans); 16. Why and what in Early Modern English drama (by Lutzky, Ursula); 17. Colloquialization and not-contraction in nineteenth-century English (by Smitterberg, Erik); 18. Wright's English Dialect Dictionary and thereafter; 19. The complexity and diversity of the words in Wright's English Dialect Dictionary (by Markus, Manfred); 20. Etymology in the English Dialect Dictionary (by Chamson, Emil); 21. Towards an understanding of Joseph Wright's sources: White Kennett's Parochial Antiquities (1695) and the English Dialect Dictionary (by Ruano-Garcia, Javier); 22. The importance of being Janus: Midland speakers and the "North-South Divide" (by Upton, Clive); 23. ... ging uns der ganze alte Dialektbegriff in eine Illusion auf: The deterritorialization of dialects in the 20th and 21st centuries (by Mair, Christian)
