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This book presents a new interpretation of the history of English.
Access to large corpuses of English has allowed scholars to assess
the minutiae of linguistic change with much greater precision than
before, often pinpointing the beginnings of linguistic innovations
in place and time. The author uses the findings from this research
to relate major historical events to change in the language, in
particular to areas of linguistic inquiry that have been of
particular importance in recent years, such as discourse analysis,
stylistics and work on pidgins and creoles. The book does not
attempt to chronicle changes in syntax or pronunciation and
spelling, but is designed to complement a corpus-based study of
formal changes. The story of English is brought up to the late
1990s to include, amongst other things, discussions of Estuary
English and the implications of the information superhighway.
This work provides 50,000 words of prosodically-transcribed text
from a variety of sources. The introduction explains fully the
transcription conventions, the structure of the corpus and its
relationship to other computer corpora, and provides examples of
different versions of texts.
This book presents a new interpretation of the history of English.
Access to large corpuses of English has allowed scholars to assess
the minutiae of linguistic change with much greater precision than
before, often pinpointing the beginnings of linguistic innovations
in place and time. The author uses the findings from this research
to relate major historical events to change in the language, in
particular to areas of linguistic inquiry that have been of
particular importance in recent years, such as discourse analysis,
stylistics and work on pidgins and creoles. The book does not
attempt to chronicle changes in syntax or pronunciation and
spelling, but is designed to complement a corpus-based study of
formal changes. The story of English is brought up to the late
1990s to include, amongst other things, discussions of Estuary
English and the implications of the information superhighway.
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