‘From above’, ‘from below’, and regionally balanced
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Konstantin Niehaus
Abstract
In this chapter, we report on an ongoing project on a corpus of German in the long nineteenth century. Similar to other historical corpora of German (and unlike existing corpora for the nineteenth century), the Nineteenth-Century German Corpus will focus on regional variation. In addition, it will account for an increasing demand for register variation, e.g. by considering formal as well as informal ‘oral’ texts. Thus, text genres ‘from above’, such as regional newspaper texts, and ‘from below’, such as private letters, are incorporated. Three case studies of variation in nineteenth-century grammar will demonstrate the benefits of such a corpus design for the study of language continuity and language change.
Abstract
In this chapter, we report on an ongoing project on a corpus of German in the long nineteenth century. Similar to other historical corpora of German (and unlike existing corpora for the nineteenth century), the Nineteenth-Century German Corpus will focus on regional variation. In addition, it will account for an increasing demand for register variation, e.g. by considering formal as well as informal ‘oral’ texts. Thus, text genres ‘from above’, such as regional newspaper texts, and ‘from below’, such as private letters, are incorporated. Three case studies of variation in nineteenth-century grammar will demonstrate the benefits of such a corpus design for the study of language continuity and language change.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface and acknowledgments vii
- Using diachronic corpora to understand the connection between genre and language change 1
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Part I. Methods in diachronic corpus linguistics
- ‘From above’, ‘from below’, and regionally balanced 19
- Diachronic collocations, genre, and DiaCollo 41
- Classical and modern Arabic corpora 65
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Part II. Genre and diachronic corpora
- Scholastic genre scripts in English medical writing 1375–1800 95
- Academic writing as a locus of grammatical change 117
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Part III. Genre-based analyses of linguistic phenomena
- The importance of genre in the Greek diglossia of the 20th century 149
- “You can’t control a thing like that” 171
- Concessive conjunctions in written American English 195
- Variation of sentence length across time and genre 219
- A comparison of multi-genre and single-genre corpora in the context of contact-induced change 241
- Some methodological issues in the corpus-based study of morphosyntactic variation 261
- The interplay between genre variation and syntax in a historical Low German corpus 281
- Genre influence on word formation (change) 301
- Index 333
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface and acknowledgments vii
- Using diachronic corpora to understand the connection between genre and language change 1
-
Part I. Methods in diachronic corpus linguistics
- ‘From above’, ‘from below’, and regionally balanced 19
- Diachronic collocations, genre, and DiaCollo 41
- Classical and modern Arabic corpora 65
-
Part II. Genre and diachronic corpora
- Scholastic genre scripts in English medical writing 1375–1800 95
- Academic writing as a locus of grammatical change 117
-
Part III. Genre-based analyses of linguistic phenomena
- The importance of genre in the Greek diglossia of the 20th century 149
- “You can’t control a thing like that” 171
- Concessive conjunctions in written American English 195
- Variation of sentence length across time and genre 219
- A comparison of multi-genre and single-genre corpora in the context of contact-induced change 241
- Some methodological issues in the corpus-based study of morphosyntactic variation 261
- The interplay between genre variation and syntax in a historical Low German corpus 281
- Genre influence on word formation (change) 301
- Index 333
