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Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics
Edited by Irma Taavitsainen, Andreas H. Jucker and Jukka Tuominen
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 243] 2014
► pp. 3–26

Diachronic corpus pragmatics

Intersections and interactions

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Published online: 11 March 2014
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https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.243.03juc
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2007– Research Unit for Variation, Contacts and Change in English, University of Helsinki. Online: [URL] .
A Corpus of English Dialogues 1560–1760
2006 Compiled under the supervision of Merja Kytö (Uppsala University) and Jonathan Culpeper (Lancaster University). More information: [URL] .
The Corpus of Late Modern English Texts
, version 3.0 (CLMET3.0) 2013 Compiled by Hendrik De Smet, Hans-Jürgen Diller, and Jukka Tyrkkö. More information: [URL] .
ECCO
= Eighteenth Century Collections Online 2003–2009 Detroit: Gale Cengage Learning. More information: [URL] .
EEBO
= Early English Books Online 2003– ProQuest LLC. Online: [URL] .
EMEMT
= Early Modern English Medical Texts 2010 Compiled by Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta, Martti Mäkinen, Ville Marttila, Maura Ratia, Carla Suhr, and Jukka Tyrkkö, with the assistance of Alpo Honkapohja, Anu Lehto, and Raisa Oinonen. Published on CD-ROM in Early Modern English Medical Texts: Corpus Description and Studies , ed. by Irma Taavitsainen, and Päivi Pahta. Amsterdam/Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins.Google Scholar
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1991 Compiled by Matti Rissanen (Project leader), Merja Kytö (Project secretary); Leena Kahlas-Tarkka, Matti Kilpiö (Old English); Saara Nevanlinna, Irma Taavitsainen (Middle English); Terttu Nevalainen, Helena Raumolin-Brunberg (Early Modern English). Department of English, University of Helsinki. More information: [URL] .
Late Modern English Medical Texts
Forthcoming. Compiled by Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta, Turo Hiltunen, Anu Lehto, Ville Marttila, Raisa Oinonen, Maura Ratia, Carla Suhr, and Jukka Tyrkkö. More information: [URL] .
London-Lund Corpus of Spoken English
1980 1991 Compiled by Jan Svartvik, Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, and Knut Hofland. Survey of English Usage, University College London, and Survey of Spoken English, Lund University. More information: [URL] .
Middle English Compendium
2006 University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service. Online: [URL] .
Ngram Viewer
Online: [URL] .
OED
= Oxford English Dictionary 1989– 3rd ed. in progress. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Online: [URL] .
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