Abstract:Historical documents are often used in applied linguistics as a source for studying the structure and use of language in the past. Linguists compile corpora such as the Representative Corpus of Historical English Registers (ARCHER;
http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/research/projects/archer/
) or the Penn‐Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Early Modern English (PPCEME, 2004;
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/hist‐corpora/PPCEME_RELEASE‐2/index.html
), using a variety of text types a… Show more
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