ACCT 002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Corpus Linguistics, Language Change, Word Lists By Frequency

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Accounting (ACCT)
• Course: ACCT 002
• Professor: Chaojibai

Document Summary

Similarity of form between words ( ) in related languages. Establishment of correspondences between languages oldest written documents. The ruthwell cross (late c7th / early c8th ad) Er fus fearran kwomu / the brave came there from afar / Qualitative differences from one stage of the language to another: We need to bridge between documents /stages of the language. Qualitative differences from one stage of the language to another. Need to bridge between documents /stages of the language. 2nd person plural: replacement of ye by you. In haste fare you hartely well (1645) two states are categorical because we sampled in a way that erases variability. Without such empirical data, we are producing a great many well formed theories with nothing to stand on: beautiful constructions with ugly feet . Four types of data: data gained by intuition. Introspection: the researcher"s own intuition aka the armchair method .