[Corpora-List] Corpus-based studies of very recent shifts in English

[Mark Davies]

I'm looking for articles or books dealing with very recent shifts in English, primarily 1990-2008. Any type of change would be fine -- lexical, semantic, grammatical, etc.

I am aware of work dealing with changes throughout the entire 1900s, or maybe the 1920s-2000s (as in the TIME Corpus: http://corpus.byu.edu/time), or the 1950s/1960s vs the 1990s (e.g. SEU/Brown/LOB vs. FROWN/FLOB). But here I'm looking for much more recent shifts -- just the last 15-20 years.

I'll post a summary of these articles, if there is interest.

Thanks in advance,

Mark Davies

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Mark Davies
Professor of (Corpus) Linguistics
Brigham Young University
(phone) 801-422-9168 / (fax) 801-422-0906
Web: davies-linguistics.byu.edu

** Corpus design and use // Linguistic databases **
** Historical linguistics // Language variation **
** English, Spanish, and Portuguese **
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