Corpus-based Studies of Diachronic English

by Roberta Facchinetti (Editor), Matti Rissanen (Editor)

Corpus-based studies of diachronic English have been thriving over the last three decades to such an extent that the validity of corpora in the enrichment of historical linguistic research is now undeniable. The present book is a collection of papers illustrating the state of the art in corpus-based research on diachronic English, by means of case-study expositions, software presentations, and theoretical discussions on the topic. The majority of these papers were delivered at the

300 pages, Paperback

First published April 5, 2006

About the author

Full Professor of English language and linguistics and head of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Verona (Univr), Italy