From Data to Evidence in English Language Research
2019
Preface Editors Notes on Contributors 1 Corpus Linguistics as Digital Scholarship: Data, and Uncharted Terttu Nevalainen, Carla Suhr and Irma Taavitsainen Part 1: Evidence from Big Data 2 Data: Opportunities and Challenges for English Corpus Linguistics Antoinette Renouf 3 Corpus-based Studies of Lexical and Semantic Variation: The Importance of Both Corpus Size and Corpus Design Mark Davies 4 Empirically Charting the Success of Prescriptivism: Some Case Studies of Nineteenth-century English Lieselotte Anderwald 5 Warn Against -ing: Exceptions to Bach's Generalization in Four Varieties of English Mark Kaunisto and Juhani Rudanko Part 2: Evidence from Rich 6 Commonplace Books: Charting and Enriching Complex Thomas Kohnen 7 Mining Data: A Philologist's Perspective Tanja Rutten 8 Function-to-form Mapping in Corpora: Historical Corpus Pragmatics and the Study of Stance Expressions Daniela Landert 9 Scholastic Argumentation in Early English Medical Writing and Its Afterlife: New Corpus Evidence Irma Taavitsainen and Gerold Schneider Part 3: Evidence from Uncharted and Rethinking Old Data? 10 Language Surrounding Poverty in Early Modern England: A Corpus-based Investigation of How People Living in the Seventeenth-century Perceived the Criminalised Poor Tony McEnery and Helen Baker 11 An Information-Theoretic Approach to Modeling Diachronic Change in Scientific English Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Hannah Kermes, Ashraf Khamis and Elke Teich 12 Academic Vocabulary in Wikipedia Articles: Frequency and Dispersion in Uneven Datasets Turo Hiltunen and Jukka Tyrkkoe 13 Words (don't come easy): The Automatic Retrieval and Analysis of Popular Song Lyrics David Brett and Antonio Pinna 14 Charting New Sources of elf Data: A Multi-genre Corpus Approach Mikko Laitinen, Magnus Levin and Alexander Lakaw Indexe