Middle and Modern English Corpus Linguistics

A multi-dimensional approach

Editors

Manfred Markus

| University of Innsbruck

Yoko Iyeiri

| Kyoto University

Reinhard Heuberger

| University of Innsbruck

Emil Chamson

| University of Innsbruck

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This book brings together a variety of approaches to English corpus linguistics and shows how corpus methodologies can contribute to the linking of diachronic and synchronic studies. The articles in this volume investigate historical changes in the English language as well as specific aspects of Middle and Modern English and, moreover, of English dialects. The contributions also discuss the development of English corpus linguistics generally and its potential in the future. Special focus is given to the continuity between Middle and Modern English – much in line with the linking in previous studies of Middle English and Old English under the generic term “medievalism”. This volume highlights the continual development of English from the medieval to modern period.

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 50] 2012. viii, 287 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.50

Table of Contents

List of abbreviations	vii–viii
Introduction Manfred Markus, Yoko Iyeiri, Reinhard Heuberger and Emil Chamson	1–10
Corpus linguistics today and tomorrow
Can’t see the wood for the trees?: Corpora and the study of Late Modern English Joan C. Beal	13–30
Spelling variation in Middle English manuscripts: The case for an integrated corpus approach Stefan Diemer	31–46
Aspects of language change
The development of compound numerals in English Biblical translations Isao Hashimoto	49–58
The complements of causative make in Late Middle English Yoko Iyeiri	59–74
The pragmaticalization and intensification of verily, truly and really: A corpus-based study on the developments of three truth-identifying adverbs Tine Defour	75–92
Concept-driven semasiology and onomasiology of CLERGY: Focus on the lexicogenesis of pope, bishop and priest Sylwester Lodej	93–108
ANGER and TĒNE in Middle English Hans-Jürgen Diller	109–124
Middle and Modern English case studies
The subjunctive vs. modal auxiliaries: Lest-clauses in Late Middle English prose texts Namiko Kikusawa	127–140
Some notes on the distribution of the quantifier all in Middle English Tomohiro Yanagi	141–156
Interjections in Middle English: Chaucer’s “Reeve’s Tale” and the Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse Hans Sauer	157–176
Why and what in Early Modern English drama Ursula Lutzky	177–190
Colloquialization and not-contraction in nineteenth-century English Erik Smitterberg	191–206
Wright’s English Dialect Dictionary and thereafter
The complexity and diversity of the words in Wright’s English Dialect Dictionary Manfred Markus	209–224
Etymology in the English Dialect Dictionary Emil Chamson	225–240
Towards an understanding of Joseph Wright’s sources: White Kennett’s Parochial Antiquities (1695) and the English Dialect Dictionary Javier Ruano-García	241–256
The importance of being Janus: Midland speakers and the “North-South Divide” Clive Upton	257–268
... ging uns der ganze alte Dialektbegriff in eine Illusion auf: The deterritorialization of dialects in the 20th and 21st centuries Christian Mair	269–284
	285–290

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Subjects

Linguistics

Corpus linguistics

Historical linguistics

Germanic linguistics

English linguistics

BIC Subject: CFX – Computational linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2011048225