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We will follow the track of change in the English language from the Early Modern English Period to today, having a look at diachronic corpora in order to find linguistic evidence in texts. We will learn about and use methods for comparing corpora with a special focus on the problems that arise when dealing with historical data:
- What data are needed? → Corpus
- How to prepare the corpus? → compilation, annotation
- How to analyse the data? → exploration, query
- How to analyse quantitative data in particular? → statistics, probability theory, information theory
The course will provide theoretical insights as well as practical experience. |
