Parts of speech in English texts: Synchronic and diachronic variability in the 20th century

英语文本中的词类：20 世纪的共时和历时变异

• 批准号: 5415546
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Christian Mair
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Englisches Seminar
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2002-12-31 至 2006-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/5415546?language=en
• 关键词: Parts; speech; English; texts; Synchronic

Building on successful work on ongoing language change based on four matching reference corpora of 20th century English (LOB, Brown, F-LOB, Frown) in their plain-text versions, the English departments of the Universities of Freiburg (Germany) and Lancaster (UK) are involved in producing versions of the corpora which are annotated ("tagged") for part-of-speech. Tagging is done automatically, with extensive manual post-editing to ensure that the material has the quality required to obtain empirically valid linguistic results.Practically all corpus-bases research on language change in progress traces changing frequencies of individual words or construction types. The focus of the present project, by contrast, is on shifting frequencies of part-of-speech classes or tag-sequences. As part-of-speech frequencies are important indicators of genre and style, we expect the work to lead to important new insights on how the deep currents of grammatical/ structural change are embedded in more volatile diachronic developments on the textual level.

在基于20世纪英语的四个匹配参考语料库（LOB，Brown，F-LOB，Frown）的纯文本版本的基础上，正在进行的语言变化的成功工作的基础上，弗赖堡大学（德国）和兰开斯特大学（英国）的英语系参与了对词性进行注释（“标记”）的语料库版本的制作。标记是自动完成的，并进行大量的人工后期编辑，以确保材料具有获得经验有效的语言学结果所需的质量。几乎所有基于语料库的语言变化研究都在跟踪单个单词或结构类型的变化频率。相比之下，本项目的重点是词性类或标记序列的频率变化。由于词性频率是体裁和风格的重要指标，我们希望这项工作能带来重要的新见解，语法/结构变化的深层电流是如何嵌入在文本层面上更不稳定的历时发展。