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