Building a Representative Theater Corpus A Broader View of Nineteenth-Century French /

• Main Author: Grieve-Smith, Angus (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Humanities-Digital libraries.; Corpora (Linguistics).; French language.; Historical linguistics.; Syntax.; Theater-History.; Digital Humanities.; Corpus Linguistics.; French.; Language History.; Theatre History.

"With this exciting book, Angus Grieve-Smith provides answers to a long-standing issue in the study of languages: how can linguists provide the most full-fledged picture of how language was used in past centuries? Indeed, his historical syntax study of theater corpora not only enriches our know...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Capturing Language Diversity through Representative Samples
• Chapter 3: FRANTEXT's Corpus of Nineteenth-Century French
• Chapter 4: The Digital Parisian Stage Project
• Chapter 5: Case Study 1: The Spread of Change in French Negation
• Chapter 6: Case Study 2: Left and Right Dislocation
• Chapter 7: Social Factors in Building a Theater Corpus
• Chapter 8: Conclusion.