Corpus-based Methods in English Historical Sociolinguistics

我编辑了一本电子文本集（第1版，约800万字），我暂时称之为早期现代英语散文选（EMEPS），并在过去四年中对其进行了研究。这证明了建立语料库是一种有用的研究方法，在历史社会语言学和语言学的一般。EMEPS不是一个平衡的语料库，但与各种单体裁语料库相结合，它可以有效地用来突出不同的文体和社会语言学方面的英语语言的发展。在目前的项目中，我专注于各种英语动词的补语模式，例如，怀疑，使，禁止，并讨论它们如何在早期现代英语时期（c.1500-1700）的变化。

I have compiled a collection of electronic texts (version 1, around eight million words), which I tentatively call Early Modern English Prose Selections (EMEPS), and conducted research into it during the past four years. This is to prove that building corpora for one's research purposes is a useful method in historical sociolinguistics and linguistics in general. EMEPS is not a balanced-corpus, but in combination with various single-genre corpora, it can effectively be used to highlight different stylistic and sociolinguistic aspects in the development of the English language. In the present project, I focused upon patterns of complementation of various English verbs, e.g. doubt, make, and prohibit, and discussed how they changed during the Early Modern English period (c.1500-1700).