Corpus-based Analysis and Diachronic Linguistics

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-272-0770-8
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 293 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 690 g

Reihe: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Nowadays, linguists do not question the existence of synchronic variation, and the dichotomy between synchrony and diachrony. They recognize that synchrony can be motivated regionally (diatopic variation), sociolinguistically (diastratic variation), or stylistically (diaphasic variation). But, further, they can also recognize the hybrid nature of synchrony, which is referred to as "dynamic synchrony." This conception of synchrony assumes that similar patterns of usage can coexist in a community during a certain period and that their mutual relations are not static but conflicting enough to result in a future systematic change through symptomatic synchronic variation. Emergence of a large corpus of written texts for some languages has enabled quantitative as well as qualitative analyses of the synchronic conditions for diachronic changes, over both long and short spans of time. Most of the 14 papers in this volume represent studies on synchronic and diachronic variations based on such corpus data.
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Autoren/Hrsg.

Kawaguchi, Yuji

Minegishi, Makoto

Viereck, Wolfgang

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Computerlinguistik, Korpuslinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Message from the President
Ikuo Kameyama
Center for Corpus-based Linguistics and Language Education
Makoto Minegishi
Introduction
Yuji Kawaguchi, Wolfgang Viereck and Makoto Minegishi
The Atlas Linguarum Europae: A diachronic analysis of its data
Wolfgang Viereck
Variationism and underuse statistics in the analysis of the development of relative clauses in German
Anke Lüdeling, Hagen Hirschmann and Amir Zeldes
Variation and change in the Montferrand Account-books (1259-1367)
R. Anthony Lodge
Cognitive aspects of language evolution and language change: The example of French historical texts
Wolfgang Raible
The importance of diasystematic parameters in studying the history of French
Lene Schøsler
The reorganisation of mood in the epistemic subsystem – The case of French belief predicates in diachronic dynamics
Martin Becker
French liaison in the 18th Century – Analysis of Gile Vaudelin's texts
Yuji Kawaguchi
Issues in the typographic representation of medieval primary sources
António Emiliano
An analysis of the misuse of the participle in old Russian texts
Yoshinori Onda
A preliminary analysis of Arabic derived verbs in the Leeds Quran Corpus – With special reference to Stem III (CaaCaC)
Robert R. Ratcliffe
On the narrow and open "e" contrast in Santali
Makoto Minegishi, Jun Takashima and Ganesh Murmu
The classification of Apabhramsa – A corpus-based approach of the study of Middle Indo-Aryan
Tomoyuki Yamahata
Changes in the meaning and construction of Polysemous words: The case of mieru and mirareru
Ayako Shiba
Language change from the viewpoint of distribution patterns of standard Japanese forms
Kanetaka Yarimizu
Index of proper nouns
Index of subjects
Contributors