From Data to Evidence in English Language Research

Carla Suhr, Ph.D., University of Helsinki, is a Senior Lecturer in English Philology at that university. She is a co-compiler of the Corpus of Early English Medical Writing and has published on corpus linguistics and historical pragmatics.Terttu Nevalainen, Ph.D., University of Helsinki, is Professor of English Philology, the Director of the VARIENG Research Unit, and a co-compiler of the historical Helsinki Corpus and the Corpus of Early English Correspondence, with well over 100 related publications.Irma Taavitsainen, Ph.D., University of Helsinki, Professor Emerita of English Philology, Deputy Director of VARIENG, and a co-compiler of the Helsinki Corpus and the Corpus of Early English Medical Writing, has published extensively on corpus linguistics and historical pragmatics.Contributors are: Lieselotte Anderwald, Helen Baker, David Brett, Mark Davies, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Turo Hiltunen, Mark Kaunisto, Hanna Kermes, Ashraf Khamis, Thomas Kohnen, Mikko Laitinen, Alexander Lakaw, Daniela Landert, Magnus Levin, Tony McEnery, Terttu Nevalainen, Antonio Pinna, Antionette Renouf, Juhani Rudanko, Tanja Rütten, Gerold Schneider, Carla Suhr, Irma Taavitsainen, Elke Teich, Jukka Tyrkkö.

• PrefaceEditorsNotes on Contributors1 Corpus Linguistics as Digital Scholarship: Big Data, Rich Data and Uncharted DataTerttu Nevalainen, Carla Suhr and Irma TaavitsainenPart 1: Evidence from “Big Data”2 Big Data: Opportunities and Challenges for English Corpus LinguisticsAntoinette Renouf3 Corpus-based Studies of Lexical and Semantic Variation: The Importance of Both Corpus Size and Corpus DesignMark Davies4 Empirically Charting the Success of Prescriptivism: Some Case Studies of Nineteenth-century EnglishLieselotte Anderwald5 Warn Against -ing: Exceptions to Bach’s Generalization in Four Varieties of EnglishMark Kaunisto and Juhani RudankoPart 2: Evidence from “Rich Data”?6 Commonplace Books: Charting and Enriching Complex DataThomas Kohnen7 Mining Big Data: A Philologist’s PerspectiveTanja Rütten8 Function-to-form Mapping in Corpora: Historical Corpus Pragmatics and the Study of Stance ExpressionsDaniela Landert9 Scholastic Argumentation in Early English Medical Writing and Its Afterlife: New Corpus EvidenceIrma Taavitsainen and Gerold SchneiderPart 3: Evidence from Uncharted Data and Rethinking Old Data?10 Language Surrounding Poverty in Early Modern England: A Corpus-based Investigation of How People Living in the Seventeenth-century Perceived the Criminalised PoorTony McEnery and Helen Baker11 An Information-Theoretic Approach to Modeling Diachronic Change in Scientific EnglishStefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Hannah Kermes, Ashraf Khamis and Elke Teich12 Academic Vocabulary in Wikipedia Articles: Frequency and Dispersion in Uneven DatasetsTuro Hiltunen and Jukka Tyrkkö13 Words (don’t come easy): The Automatic Retrieval and Analysis of Popular Song LyricsDavid Brett and Antonio Pinna14 Charting New Sources of elf Data: A Multi-genre Corpus ApproachMikko Laitinen, Magnus Levin and Alexander LakawIndexe