"This book has its origin at the IAUPE (International Association of University Professors in English) conference in Malta, 19-23 July 2010, where we combined the sections of 'Corpus Linguistics' and 'History of English' into a "conference within a conference" that lasted for se…
The history of the English language is a vast and diverse area of research. In this volume, a team of leading historians of English come together to analyse 'real' language, drawing on corpus data to shed new light on long-established issues and debates in the field. Combining s…
Machine generated contents note: 1. English in the digital age. General introduction Irma Taavitsainen, Merja Kyto, Claudia Claridge and Jeremy Smith; Part I. Linguistic Directions and Crossroads: Mapping the Routes Merja Kyto: 2. Corpus-based and corpus-driven approaches to lin…
"The history of the English language is a vast and diverse area of research. In this volume, a team of leading historians of English come together to analyse 'real' language, drawing on corpus data to shed new light on long-established issues and debates in the field. Combining …