Historical Corpus Linguistics

Question 1

Corpus

Answer 1

Collection of machine-readable, digitalized texts, spoken/ written data on defined principles, naturally occurring speech, balanced, representative

Question 2

Types

Answer 2

Plain text corpora, part-of-speech tagged corpora, parsed corpora

Question 3

Corpus linguistic studies

Answer 3

Intersubjectively verifiable, frequency based, context sensitive, computer assisted

Question 4

Intensifiers in Late Modern English assumptions

Answer 4

Major changes have happened, very is the most frequent, women lead

Question 5

Intensifiers in Late Modern English method

Answer 5

The Old Bailey Corpus (1720-1923), meta information (year, gender, class), adverb + general adjective

Question 6

Intensifiers in Late Modern English

Answer 6

Very is most popular (66%), perfectly/ absolutely established, women and higher classes lead, but men and higher social classes introduce

Question 7

Corpora (size)

Answer 7

Standard vs. mega

1st generation vs. 2nd generation

Question 8

Corpora (context)

Answer 8

Monolingual vs. bilingual/ multilingual
Native vs. non-native
Synchronic vs. diachronic
General vs. specialised

Question 9

Corpora (design)

Answer 9

Static vs. dynamic
Plain text vs. annotated
Sample text vs. full text
Corpora vs. collections/ archives