Corpora and the study of the history of English

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In the last four decades, the use of corpora has become the standard method of analysing and explaining the diachronic development and synchronic stages of the English language. Corpora have reduced the time spent on finding evidence for linguistic phenomena of past centuries and exercised a significant influence in bringing theoretical and use-based analyses closer together. They have also improved the potential for pragmatic and discourse-based analysis of the history of English, focusing on the negotiation of meaning between the speaker/writer and hearer/reader. In the last four decades, the use of corpora has become the standard method of analysing and explaining the diachronic development and synchronic stages of the English language. Corpora have reduced the time spent on finding evidence for linguistic phenomena of past centuries and exercised a significant influence in bringing theoretical and use-based analyses closer together. They have also improved the potential for pragmat

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