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Shareholder, Parr Brown Gee & Loveless and Adjunct Professor, Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School. See more: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1345493

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Corpora and Historical Texts

Posted by on July 8, 2021

Corpus linguistics has always been concerned with studying language by gathering evidence of language use. Historical corpus linguistics concerns itself with studying the language of some speech community at a specific point in the past (sometimes called synchronic analysis) or studying language change through time (sometimes called diachronic analysis). One reason to gather evidence of […]