Early English in the Computer Age
Subtitle: Explorations Through the Helsinki Corpus (Topics in English Linguistics)
Contributors: Minna Palander-Collin (Editor)
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: October 1993
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9783110137392
Subjects: Language & Linguistics; Research; General; English Language History; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; English; Language; Middle English, 1100-1500; Data processing; Early modern, 1500-1700; English language; Old English, ca. 450-1100
First sentence: The main aim of the diachronic part of The Helsinki Corpus of English Texts (henceforth the Helsinki Corpus) is to support the variationist approach to the history of English, i.e., research based on extensive evidence provided by as many types, modes and levels of linguistic expression as possible.