Terttu Nevalainen, Minna Palander-Collin and Tanja Säily (eds.), Patterns of change in 18th-century English: A sociolinguistic approach (Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics 8). Amsterdam and New York: Benjamins, 2018. Pp. xi + 311. ISBN 9789027201034.

Abstract

The volume under review, Patterns of change in 18th-century English: A sociolinguistic approach, is the eighth to appear in the series Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics by John Benjamins. It joins six other edited volumes and two monographs, all of which make important contributions to the field by exploring new research avenues in a variety of languages. Some volumes in the series examine specific genres, others particular language communities, but a common denominator for all is an interest, to a greater or lesser extent, in the eighteenth century. The present volume is no exception, with its clear focus on the sociolinguistics of linguistic change in eighteenth-century (British) English letters connecting it to the other publications in the series.

Sebastian Hoffmann, Andrea Sand, Sabine Arndt-Lappe and Lisa Marie Dillmann (eds.), Corpora and lexis (Language and Computers 81). Leiden and Boston: Brill / Rodopi, 2018. Pp. 306. ISBN 9789004361133.

“…In chapter 7, 'Towards a model of co-collocation analysis: Theory, methodology, and preliminary results', Moisés Almela and Pascual Cantos challenge the commonly held view in Corpus Linguistics that collocation is a bipartite structure containing a node and a collocate (cf. Sinclair 1991). Almela & Cantos rather advocate collocation as a multipartite structure where they introduce the concept of 'mediated' collocation, or co-collocation.…”