Corpus-based Studies of Diachronic English

Contents
Introduction
The Importance of Historical Corpora, Reliability, and Reading • Anne Curzan / Chris C. Palmer
Old English and Middle English
	More on the Ancestors of Need • Johan Van Der Auwera / Martine Taeymans
	Spotting Spoken Historical English: The Role of Alliteration in Middle English Fixed Expressions • Manfred Markus
	Towards a Corpus-Based History of Specialized Languages: Middle English Medical Texts • Irma Taavitsainen / Päivi Pahta / Martti Mäkinen
	Towards the Automatic Identification of Directive Speech Acts • Barry Morley/ Patricia Sift
Modern English
	Leaders of Linguistic Change in Early Modern England • Helena Raumolin-Brunberg
	ZEN Corpus 1.0 • Hans Martin Lehmann / Caren auf dem Keller / Beni Ruef
	Death Notices: The Birth of a Genre • Udo Fries
	The Contribution of Computer-Searchable Diachronic Corpora to the Study of Word Stress Variation • Franck Zumstein
19th-Century and 20th-Century English
	19th-Century English: An Age of Stability or a Period of Change? • Merja Kytö / Erik Smitterberg
	The Conventions’ Spelling Conventions: Regional Variation in 19th-Century Australian Spelling • Clemens Fritz
	The Grammaticalization of the English Adjectives of Comparison: A Diachronic Case Study • Tine Breban
	Panchrony in Linguistic Change: The Case of Courtesy • Göran Kjellmer