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Syntactic changes in verbal clauses and noun phrases from 1500 onwards

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2022
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Schneider, G. (2022). Syntactic changes in verbal clauses and noun phrases from 1500 onwards. In B. Los, C. Cowie, & P. Honeybone (Eds.), English Historical Linguistics: Change in Structure and Meaning (No. 361; Issue 361, pp. 163–200). John Benjamins Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.358.07sch

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Can the promise of data-driven methods hold in historical linguistics? Can they detect salient syntactic changes and open new research avenues? I first use data-driven measures to detect patterns in the ARCHER corpus. Secondly, I qualitatively interpret the differences and build hypotheses. Thirdly, I validate these, with the Penn Corpora, investigating frequency and creativity. We ob- serve several trends – among them: verbal (‘Doric’) style is decreasing, nominal (‘Attic’) style is increasing. A cascade from full to non-finite claus

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  • Schneider, Gerold
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  • Los, Bettelou
  • Cowie, Claire
  • Honeybone, Patrick

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English Historical Linguistics: Change in Structure and Meaning

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Amsterdam

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163

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200

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data-driven methods, syntax, ARCHER corpus, Penn Parsed Corpora, Penn Treebank, nominal style, entropy, word order, information structure

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English

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2022

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2023-02-10

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Current Issues in Linguistic Theory

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0304-0763

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9789027210647

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Schneider, G. (2022). Syntactic changes in verbal clauses and noun phrases from 1500 onwards. In B. Los, C. Cowie, & P. Honeybone (Eds.), English Historical Linguistics: Change in Structure and Meaning (No. 361; Issue 361, pp. 163–200). John Benjamins Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.358.07sch

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