Article outline
- 5.1How to measure historical language change
- 5.2Desiderata and candidates for a textual basis
- 5.2.1Resembling spoken language
- 5.2.2Anglo-Saxon originals rather than translations
- 5.2.3Frequent reference to non-human entities
- 5.2.4Reliably dated and placed
- 5.2.5Diachronically stable text type
- 5.3Manuscripts contributing to the textual basis
- 5.4Description and motivation of variables investigated
- 5.4.1Formal variables
- 5.4.1.1Case
- 5.4.1.2Number
- 5.4.2Semantic and cognitive variables
- 5.4.2.1Sex/animacy
- 5.4.2.2Abstractness
- 5.4.2.3Countability
- 5.4.2.4Definiteness
- 5.4.3Extralinguistic variables
- 5.4.3.1Time of production
- 5.4.3.2Place of production
- 5.5Coding and data classification
- 5.6Statistical modelling
- 5.7Chapter summary
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