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 | pp. vii–viii

Introduction

Manfred Markus, Yoko Iyeiri, Reinhard Heuberger and Emil Chamson | pp. 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 | pp. 13–30

Spelling variation in Middle English manuscripts: The case for an integrated corpus approach

Stefan Diemer | pp. 31–46

Aspects of language change

The development of compound numerals in English Biblical translations

Isao Hashimoto | pp. 49–58

The complements of causative make in Late Middle English

Yoko Iyeiri | pp. 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 | pp. 75–92

Concept-driven semasiology and onomasiology of CLERGY: Focus on the lexicogenesis of pope, bishop and priest

Sylwester Lodej | pp. 93–108

ANGER and TĒNE in Middle English

Hans-Jürgen Diller | pp. 109–124

Middle and Modern English case studies

The subjunctive vs. modal auxiliaries: Lest-clauses in Late Middle English prose texts

Namiko Kikusawa | pp. 127–140

Some notes on the distribution of the quantifier all in Middle English

Tomohiro Yanagi | pp. 141–156

Interjections in Middle English: Chaucer’s “Reeve’s Tale” and the Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse

Hans Sauer | pp. 157–176

Why and what in Early Modern English drama

Ursula Lutzky | pp. 177–190

Colloquialization and not-contraction in nineteenth-century English

Erik Smitterberg | pp. 191–206

Wright’s English Dialect Dictionary and thereafter

The complexity and diversity of the words in Wright’s English Dialect Dictionary

Manfred Markus | pp. 209–224

Etymology in the English Dialect Dictionary

Emil Chamson | pp. 225–240

Towards an understanding of Joseph Wright’s sources: White Kennett’s Parochial Antiquities (1695) and the English Dialect Dictionary

Javier Ruano-García | pp. 241–256

The importance of being Janus: Midland speakers and the “North-South Divide”

Clive Upton | pp. 257–268

... ging uns der ganze alte Dialektbegriff in eine Illusion auf: The deterritorialization of dialects in the 20th and 21st centuries

Christian Mair | pp. 269–284

| pp. 285–290

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