A year to remember?

Baker, Paul (2023) A year to remember? International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 28 (3). pp. 407-429. ISSN 1384-6655

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Abstract

This paper describes the collection and analysis of the most recent edition of the Brown family, the BE21 corpus, consisting of 1 million words of written British English texts, published in 2021. Using the Coefficient of Variance, the frequencies of part of speech tags in BE21 are compared against the other four British members of the Brown family (from 1931, 1961, 1991 and 2006). Part of speech tags that are steadily increasing or decreasing in all five or the latest three corpora are examined via concordance lines and their distributions in order to identify long-standing and emerging trends in British English. The analysis points to the continuation of some trends (such as declines in modal verbs and titles of address), along with newer trends like the rise of first person pronouns. The analysis indicates that more general trends of densification, democratisation and colloquialisation are continuing in British English.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
Uncontrolled Keywords:
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Subjects:
?? diachronicvariationpart of speechfrequencylinguistics and languagelanguage and linguistics ??
ID Code:
195104
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Deposited On:
05 Jun 2023 14:15
Refereed?:
Yes
Published?:
Published
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15 Jul 2024 23:51