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Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change
Edited by Richard J. Whitt
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 85] 2018
► pp. 1–16

Using diachronic corpora to understand the connection between genre and language change

| The University of Nottingham
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.What is genre?
  • 3.Diachronic corpora: Challenges in design, compilation, and use
  • 4.Some diachronic corpora
  • 5.The present volume
  • 6.Reflection
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 8 November 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.85.01whi
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