English Diachronic Corpus Linguistic: Prague Themes (keynote address)

Abstract

Recent years saw a growing popularity of quantitative historical linguistics in Prague, especially application of the methodologies of Digital Humanities. We will introduce the Prague take on diachronic corpus linguistics by focusing on some of these current issues the Department of English Language has been engaged in pursuing.

Keywords

• corpus linguistics
• diachronic linguistics
• Prague School
• Old English
• Middle English
• Early Modern English