Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change

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Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change is written by Richard J. Whitt and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9027263507 (ISBN 10) and 9789027263506 (ISBN 13).

This volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of the intersecting fields of corpus linguistics, historical linguistics, and genre-based studies of language usage. Papers in this collection are devoted to presenting relevant methods pertinent to corpus-based studies of the connection between genre and language change, linguistic changes that occur in particular genres, and specific diachronic phenomena that are influenced by genre factors to greater and lesser degrees. Data are drawn from a number of languages, and the scope of the studies presented here is both short- and long-term, covering cases of recent change as well as more long-term alterations.