ABSTRACT
This collection features different perspectives on how digital tools are changing our understanding of language varieties, language contact, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and dialectology through the lens of different historical contexts.
With a clear focus on English, chapters in the volume showcase a broad range of digital methods and approaches that can contribute to advancing the study of historical linguistics. Visualization tools and corpus-linguistic techniques are part of the methodologies included in the volume. The chapters present empirically based research and discuss theoretical aspects that emphasize how digitalization is changing our analysis of different domains of language, going from phonology to specific grammatical/morphosyntactic and lexical features, to discourse-related issues more broadly.
This book will be of interest to scholars of the history of the English language, historical linguistics, corpus linguistics, and digital humanities.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Section I|80 pages
New Methods for New Questions in Historical Linguistics
chapter 2|20 pages
“I hope that a correspondence may still be kept up between us”
chapter 3|19 pages
Traditional Data Sets and the Question of Community Bilingualism
chapter 4|16 pages
When Natural Language Processing Meets Corpus Linguistics
part Section II|62 pages
Old Data in the New Digital Age
chapter 5|19 pages
“[H]is eye went neuer off of hir”
chapter 7|26 pages
Seriously, where do illocutionary adverbs come from?
part Section III|50 pages
Investigating Language Contact through New Technologies
chapter 8|26 pages
Complementizer Deletion in That-clauses from Old to Late Modern English
chapter 10|21 pages
Sorry mine tusen skrivefeil!
part Section IV|78 pages
Investigating Dialect in the New Digital Age
