[Corpora-List] Corpora Digest, Vol 10, Issue 3

[Antoinette Renouf]

Dear Mark

>>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.

 

The work carried out in the RDUES unit since 1988 matches your
timeframe. Please see bibliographical references for research into
recent lexical and lexico-semantic change in journalistic text 1989-2007
at http://rdues.uce.ac.uk/bibliog.shtml, relating to the 

*     AVIATOR (new words and new word uses) 

*     ACRONYM (changing sense relations) 

*     APRIL (productivity at hapax level) 

*     WebCorp (neology) and 

*     WebCorpLSE (neology) projects 

 

Best regards

Antoinette

 

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Antoinette Renouf

Professor of English Language and Linguistics

School of English

Birmingham City University

B42 2SU

 

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http://www.webcorp.org.uk/ 

 

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   1.  Corpus-based studies of very recent shifts in English

      (Mark Davies)

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Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 09:42:31 -0600

From: Mark Davies <Mark_Davies_AT_byu.edu>

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

      English

To: "CORPORA_AT_uib.no" <CORPORA_AT_uib.no>

 

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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