Digitally-assisted Historical English Linguistics (Routledge Studies in Historical Linguistics)

This collection features different perspectives on how digital tools are changing our understanding of language varieties, language contact, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and dialectology through the lens of different historical contexts.

With a clear focus on English, chapters in the volume showcase a broad range of digital methods and approaches that can contribute to advancing the study of historical linguistics. Visualization tools and corpus-linguistic techniques are part of the methodologies included in the volume. The chapters present empirically based research and discuss theoretical aspects that emphasize how digitalization is changing our analysis of different domains of language, going from phonology to specific grammatical/morphosyntactic and lexical features, to discourse-related issues more broadly.

This book will be of interest to scholars of the history of the English language, historical linguistics, corpus linguistics, and digital humanities.

Carolina P. Amador-Moreno is Professor of English Linguistics. She is currently based at the University of Extremadura, Spain. At the time of putting this book together, she was Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Bergen, Norway. Her research interests center on the English spoken in Ireland and include historical linguistics, stylistics, corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics, and pragmatics

Dagmar Haumann is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Bergen, Norway. Her main research interests lie in synchronic and diachronic syntax, especially in the structural integration and licensing of modifiers in verbal and nominal projections, as well as in the development of speaker-oriented adverbs in English.

Arne Peters is Professor of Anthropological Linguistics/Cultural Linguistics at the University of Bremen, Germany. His cognitive sociolinguistic and cultural linguistic work focuses on lexical, morphosyntactic, and pragmatic manifestations of sociocultural cognition in L1 and L2 varieties of English worldwide, most notably the ones spoken in Ireland and South Africa.