Short Term Diachronic Shifts in Part-of-Speech Frequencies: A Comparison of the Tagged LOB and F-LOB Corpora
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"Our Western civilization, it has been said, favours an overdevelopment of the intellect at the expense of the emotions. This is why people prefer nouns to verbs." (Potter 1975: 101) 1. Introduction In the present paper we do not aim at the type of language-based cultural criticism encapsulated in the motto, which is taken from Potter's Changing English – an interesting if somewhat impressionistic account of linguistic change in present-day English written for a popular audience. Yet the quote serves as a reminder that part-of-speech frequencies in texts are far from trivial and may indeed be revealing stylistic indicators.
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تاریخ انتشار 2008