Diachronic collocations, genre, and DiaCollo
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Bryan Jurish
Abstract
This chapter presents the formal basis for diachronic collocation profiling as implemented in the open-source software tool “DiaCollo” and sketches some potential applications to multi-genre diachronic corpora. Explicitly developed for the efficient extraction, comparison, and interactive visualization of collocations from a diachronic text corpus, DiaCollo is suitable for processing collocation pairs whose association strength depends on extralinguistic features such as the date of occurrence or text genre. By tracking changes in a word’s typical collocates over time, DiaCollo can help to provide a clearer picture of diachronic changes in the word’s usage, especially those related to semantic shift or discourse environment. Use of the flexible DDC search engine1 back-end allows user queries to make explicit reference to genre and other document-level metadata, thus allowing e.g. independent genre-local profiles or cross-genre comparisons. In addition to traditional static tabular display formats, a web-service plugin also offers a number of intuitive interactive online visualizations for diachronic profile data for immediate inspection.
Abstract
This chapter presents the formal basis for diachronic collocation profiling as implemented in the open-source software tool “DiaCollo” and sketches some potential applications to multi-genre diachronic corpora. Explicitly developed for the efficient extraction, comparison, and interactive visualization of collocations from a diachronic text corpus, DiaCollo is suitable for processing collocation pairs whose association strength depends on extralinguistic features such as the date of occurrence or text genre. By tracking changes in a word’s typical collocates over time, DiaCollo can help to provide a clearer picture of diachronic changes in the word’s usage, especially those related to semantic shift or discourse environment. Use of the flexible DDC search engine1 back-end allows user queries to make explicit reference to genre and other document-level metadata, thus allowing e.g. independent genre-local profiles or cross-genre comparisons. In addition to traditional static tabular display formats, a web-service plugin also offers a number of intuitive interactive online visualizations for diachronic profile data for immediate inspection.
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
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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
