Preface and acknowledgments

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface and acknowledgments vii
4. Using diachronic corpora to understand the connection between genre and language change 1
5. Part I. Methods in diachronic corpus linguistics
6. ‘From above’, ‘from below’, and regionally balanced 19
7. Diachronic collocations, genre, and DiaCollo 41
8. Classical and modern Arabic corpora 65
9. Part II. Genre and diachronic corpora
10. Scholastic genre scripts in English medical writing 1375–1800 95
11. Academic writing as a locus of grammatical change 117
12. Part III. Genre-based analyses of linguistic phenomena
13. The importance of genre in the Greek diglossia of the 20th century 149
14. “You can’t control a thing like that” 171
15. Concessive conjunctions in written American English 195
16. Variation of sentence length across time and genre 219
17. A comparison of multi-genre and single-genre corpora in the context of contact-induced change 241
18. Some methodological issues in the corpus-based study of morphosyntactic variation 261
19. The interplay between genre variation and syntax in a historical Low German corpus 281
20. Genre influence on word formation (change) 301
21. Index 333