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  1. 1. The House of Stewart as Agent of Language Change : A Historical Sociolinguistic Corpus Analysis of Register Variation and Language Change in the Stewart Letters (1504-1669)

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

    Author : Niclas Vikström; [2016]
    Keywords : Historical sociolinguistics; corpus linguistics; the Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence PCEEC ; Late Middle and Early Modern English; the house of Stewart.;

    Abstract : The present project set out to explore whether or not the members of one of the most powerful families in history functioned as agents of language change. Using the Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence (PCEEC), the present project examines and discusses linguistic conservatism and innovation in relation to the historical movement towards a Standard English. READ MORE

  3. 2. Tudor and Stuart England and the Significance of Adjectives : A Corpus Analysis of Adjectival Modification, Gender Perspectives and Mutual Information Regarding Titles of Social Rank Used in Tudor and Stuart England

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Niclas Vikström; [2015]
    Keywords : Historical sociolinguistics; corpus linguistics; variationist theory; Renaissance English; Late Middle and Early Modern English; titles of social rank; Tudor and Stuart England; the Corpus of Early English Correspondence Sampler CEECS ; adjectival modification; semantic domains; collocations; type token ratios; gender; mutual information.;

    Abstract : The aim of the present study has been to investigate how titles of social rank used in Tudor and Stuart England are modified by attributive adjectives in pre-adjacent position and the implications that become possible to observe. Using the Corpus of Early English Correspondence Sampler (CEECS) the present work set out to examine adjectival modification, gender perspectives and MI (Mutual Information) scores in order to gain a deeper understanding of how and why titles were modified in certain ways. READ MORE