8 research outputs found
Language contact and language change: the Danes in England
Get PDFThe influence of the Scandinavian dialects on English has been often studied though no
significant progress seems to have been achieved. The major aim of this paper is to offer a methodological approach which can provide a description of the Scandinavian lexical element in Middle English but considering it in its different aspects. Thus, we will undertake a corpus-based analysis where different variables such as semantic field, type of text and dialect among others are taken into consideration. The resulting description will reveal that the linguistic intercourse must have been different from what traditional scholars have always believed
Lexical change in medieval English: a Sociolinguistic approach to Diachrony
No full textDecenes Jornades de Foment de la Investigació de la FCHS (Any 2004-2005
The Coruña Corpus Tool
Get PDFEl Coruña Corpus de documentos científicos será usado para el estudio
diacrónico del discurso científico en la mayoría de los niveles lingüísticos, contribuyendo
de esta forma al estudio del desarrollo histórico del inglés. El Coruña Corpus
Tool es un sistema de recuperación de información que permite compilar conocimiento
sobre el corpus.The Coruña Corpus of scientific writing will be used for the diachronic
study of scientific discourse from most linguistic levels and thereby contribute to
the study of the historical development of English. The Coruña Corpus Tool is an
information retrieval system that allows the extraction of knowledge from the corpus.The research which is here reported
on has been funded by the Xunta de Galicia
through its Dirección Xeral de Investigación e Desenvolvemento,
grant number PGIDIT03PXIB10402PR
(supervised by Isabel Moskowich-Spiegel). This grant
is hereby gratefully acknowledged. The first author
also has to acknowledge the funds of the “Secretaría
de Estado de Universidades e Investigación” and FEDER
(MEC TIN2005-08521-C02-02) and “Xunta de
Galicia”(PGIDIT06 PXIC10501PN)
La enseñanza de la fonética en la universidad (Mesa redonda)
No full textActas del I Congreso Internacional “Adquisición e aprendizaxe das linguas segundas e as súas literaturas” (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Campus de Lugo, septiembre de 1995
