ARCHER: A Representative Corpus of Historical English Registers

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Publications using ARCHER

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Publications using ARCHER, 2010-present

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  • Biber, Douglas & Bethany Gray. 2011. Grammatical change in the noun phrase: The influence of written language use. English Language and Linguistics15.2, 223-250.
  • Blanco-García, Cristina. 2013. On the history of the subordinator how(so/some)ever. A corpus-based study. Paper presented at 37th AEDEAN Conference, Oviedo.
  • Blanco-García, Cristina. 2013. On the history of the subordinator notwithstanding. A corpus-based study. Paper presented at 5th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC2013), Alicante.
  • Blanco-García, Cristina. 2014. Ephemeral adverbial subordinators in the history of English: A corpus-based study. Paper presented at Doctoral sessions in English Language, 12th ESSE Conference, Košice.
  • Blanco-García, Cristina. 2014. On the history of the subordinator how(so/some)ever. A corpus-based study. In Esther álvarez López, Emilia María Durán Almarza & Alicia Menéndez Tarrazo (eds.), Building interdisciplinary knowledge. Approaches to English and American Studies in Spain, 295-305. Oviedo: AEDEAN & KRK Ediciones.
  • Blanco-García, Cristina. 2014. On the notion of ephemerality in marking subordination: A diachronic account. Paper presented at (Post-)Doctoral Research Colloquium, Freiburg.
  • Blanco-García, Cristina. 2014. Os subordinantes adverbiais efémeros na Historia do Inglés: Un estudo de corpus. Poster presented at II Encontro da Mocidade Investigadora EDI-USC, Santiago de Compostela.
  • Blanco-García, Cristina. 2014. Tracing the history of how-ephemeral concessive subordinators: A corpus-based study. Paper presented at 6th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC2014), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
  • Blanco-García, Cristina. 2015: A diachronic corpus-based approach to ephemeral subordinators: Concessives and conditionals in focus”. Invited presentation at Department of English, LMU Munich.
  • Blanco-García, Cristina. 2016: A corpus-based approach to the history of ephemeral adverbial subordinators: Concessives, conditionals and causals. Paper presented at IDAES Graduate Day 2016, Santiago de Compostela.
  • Blanco-García, Cristina. forthcoming. Ephemerality in concessive subordinators. Evidence from the history of English. In Sofía Bemposta et al. (eds.) New trends and methodologies in applied English language research III: Synchronic and diachronic studies on discourse, lexis and grammar processing. Bern: Peter Lang. [Paper presented at ELC4]
  • Broccias, Cristiano & Nicholas Smith. 2010. Same time, across time: Simultaneity clauses from Late Modern to Present-Day English. English Language and Linguistics 14.3, 347-71.
  • Caratiola, Julia. in progress. Past tense and past participle forms of strong verbs: Contrasting Late Modern English prescriptive grammars with language use. MA dissertation, Cologne.
  • Celle, Agnès & Nicholas Smith. 2010. Beyond aspect: Will be -ing and shall be -ing. Special issue: Future time reference in English. English Language and Linguistics 14.2, 239-69.
  • Curzan, Anne. 2012. Revisiting the reduplicative copula with corpus-based evidence. In Terttu Nevalainen & Elizabeth Closs Traugott (eds.), The Oxford handbook of the history of English, 211-21. New York: OUP.
  • Denison, David. 2010. SKT-constructions: The relation between synchronic and diachronic analysis. Paper presented at SLE 43, Vilnius.
  • Denison, David. 2011. ISLE highlights? Presidential address at ISLE2, Boston MA.
  • Denison, David. 2013. Grammatical mark-up: Some more demarcation disputes. In Paul Bennett, Martin Durrell, Silke Scheible & Richard J. Whitt (eds.), New methods in historical corpora, 17-35. Tübingen: Gunter Narr. (Plenary paper presented at New Methods in Historical Corpora, Manchester.)
  • Denison, David. in prep. English word classes: Categories and their limits (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics). CUP.
  • Denison, David & Alison Cort. 2010. Better as a verb. In Kristin Davidse, Lieven Vandelanotte & Hubert Cuyckens (eds.), Subjectification, intersubjectification and grammaticalization, 349-83. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter Mouton.
  • Denison, David & Marianne Hundt. 2013. Defining relatives. Journal of English Linguistics41.2, 135-167.
  • Durrell, Martin. 2014. Mit der Sprache ging es immer schon bergab. Dynamik, Wandel und Variation aus sprachhistorischer Perspektive. In Albrecht Plewnia & Andreas Witt (eds.),Sprachverfall? Dynamik – Wandel – Variation, 11-31. (Institut für Deutsche Sprache Jahrbuch 2013). Berlin & Boston: de Gruyter.
  • Durrell, Martin. 2016. Textsortenspezifische und regionale Unterschiede bei der Standardisierung der deutschen Sprache. In Sarah Kwekkeboom & Sandra Waldenberger (eds.), PerspektivWechsel oder: Die Wiederentdeckung der Philologie, 211-31. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag
  • Durrell, Martin & Richard J. Whitt, 2016. The development of the würde + infinitive construction in Early Modern German (1650-1800). Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literature (PBB) 138.4.
  • Fanego, Teresa. 2013a. New reflections on actualization and reanalysis, with special reference to the rise of ACC-ing gerundives. Third Vigo-Newcastle-Santiago-Leuven International Workshop on the Structure of the Noun Phrase in English: Synchronic and Diachronic Explorations (NP3), KU Leuven.
  • Fanego, Teresa. 2013b. Clauses as non-oblique complements in the history of English. Plenary lecture presented at Tampere Linguistics Forum – Perspectives on Complementation, Tampere.
  • Fanego, Teresa. 2014a. Multiple sources in language change. Paper presented at 3rd Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE3), Zurich.
  • Fanego, Teresa. 2014b. The ladies all sitting in the open air, exposes them to great inconveniences: The role of free adjuncts and absolutes in the formation of ACC-inggerundives. Paper presented at 47th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan.
  • Fanego, Teresa. 2014c. From modifier to core argument: The constructionalization of ACC-inggerundives. Paper presented at International Symposium on Verbs, Clauses and Constructions. Theory, Variation and Change (VCC Symposium 2014), La Rioja.
  • Fanego, Teresa. 2014d. The emergence and expansion of the English ACC-ing construction. Paper presented at 38th AEDEAN Conference, Alcalá de Henares.
  • Fanego, Teresa. 2015. Multiple sources in language change: The role of free adjuncts and absolutes in the formation of English ACC-ing gerundives. In Mikko Höglund, Paul Rickman, Juhani Rudanko & Jukka Havu (eds.), Perspectives on complementation: Structure, variation and boundaries, 179-205. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Fanego, Teresa. 2016. The Great Complement Shift revisited: The constructionalization of ACC-ing gerundives. Functions of Language 23.1, 84-119.
  • Hundt, Marianne. 2012. Towards a corpus of New Zealand English: News from Erewhon? Te Reo: Journal of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand 55, 51-74.
  • Hundt, Marianne. 2013. Relatives in scientific English: Variation across time and space. In Franca Poppi & Winnie Cheng (eds.), The three waves of globalization: Winds of change in professional, institutional and academic genres, 244-68. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Hundt, Marianne. 2014a. The demise of the being to V construction. Transactions of the Philological Society 112.2, 167-87.
  • Hundt, Marianne (ed.). 2014b. Late Modern English syntax. Cambridge: CUP.
  • Hundt, Marianne. 2015. Do-support in early New Zealand and Australian English. In Peter Collins (ed.), Grammatical change in English world-wide, 65-86. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  • Hundt, Marianne, David Denison & Gerold Schneider. 2012a. Retrieving relatives from historical data. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 3-16.
  • Hundt, Marianne, David Denison & Gerold Schneider. 2012b. Relative complexity in scientific discourse. English Language and Linguistics 16.2, 209-40.
  • Hundt, Marianne & Anne Gardner. 2017. Corpus-based approaches: Watching English change. In Laurel Brinton (ed.), Approaches to English historical linguistics: Approaches and perspectives, 96-130. Cambridge: CUP.
  • Hundt, Marianne & Geoffrey Leech. 2012. Small is beautiful: On the value of standard reference corpora for observing recent grammatical change. In Terttu Nevalainen & Elizabeth Traugott (eds.), The Oxford handbook of the history of English, 175-88. New York: OUP.
  • Hundt, Marianne & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi. 2012. Animacy in early New Zealand English.English World Wide 33.3, 241-63. (Paper presented at Helsinki Corpus Festival, Helsinki.)
  • Kranich, Svenja. 2010a. The progressive in Modern English. A corpus-based study of grammaticalization and related changes. Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi.
  • Kranich, Svenja. 2010b. Grammaticalization, subjectification and objectification. In Katerina Stathi, Elke Gehweiler & Ekkehard König (eds.), Grammaticalization: Current views and issues, 101-122. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  • Kranich, Svenja. 2013. Functional layering and the English progressive. Linguistics 51.1, 1-32.
  • López-Couso, María José. 2011a. Looking into the history of namely: A story of ruthless competition. Paper presented at 32nd Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME 32), Oslo (Norway), 1-5 June 2011.
  • López-Couso, María José. 2011b. Corpus-based methodology and grammaticalization theory: Observing, describing, and analyzing grammaticalization and related processes of language change through corpus linguistics. Paper presented at ISLE2, Boston University.
  • López-Couso, María José. 2015. Tracing the variation between perhaps and maybe in historical and contemporary corpora. Paper presented at ICAME 36, Trier.
  • López-Couso, María José. 2016. Continuing the dialogue between corpus linguistics and grammaticalization theory: Three case studies. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 12, 7-29.
  • López-Couso, María José & Belén Méndez-Naya. 2010. At the crossroads of complementation and adverbial subordination: Intralinguistic and crosslinguistic considerations. Paper presented at Department of Linguistics Research Seminar Series, SOAS, London.
  • López-Couso, María José & Belén Méndez-Naya. 2012. On the origin and development of comparative complementizers in English: Evidence from historical corpora. In Nila Vázquez González (ed.), Creation and use of historical English corpora in Spain, 311-33. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  • López-Couso, María José & Belén Méndez-Naya. 2013a. Secondary grammaticalization in clause combining: Minor declarative complementizers in English as a case in point. Paper presented at 21st International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL21), Oslo.
  • López-Couso, María José & Belén Méndez-Naya. 2013b. Adverbial subordinators in complementation structures in English: Synchronic and diachronic considerations. Paper presented at 46th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Split.
  • López-Couso, María José & Belén Méndez-Naya. 2014a. On the adverbialization of may +be/happen constructions. Paper presented at ICAME 35, Nottingham.
  • López-Couso, María José & Belén Méndez-Naya. 2014b. Sobre la adverbialización de maybe‘quizás’. Paper presented at Workshop ‘Análise de construcións e lingüística de corpus’, Santiago de Compostela.
  • López-Couso, María José & Belén Méndez-Naya. 2014c. From clause to adverb: On the history of maybe and related forms. Paper presented at Workshop ‘Outside the clause: Form and function of extra-clausal constituents’, Vienna.
  • López-Couso, María José & Belén Méndez-Naya. 2014d. The use of if as a declarative complementizer in English: Some theoretical and empirical considerations. In Alejandro Alcaraz-Sintes & Salvador Valera-Hernández (eds.), Diachrony and synchrony in English corpus linguistics, 85-107. Bern: Peter Lang.
  • López-Couso, María José & Belén Méndez-Naya. 2014e. Epistemic parentheticals with seem: Late Modern English in focus. In Marianne Hundt (ed.), The syntax of Late Modern English, 291-308. Cambridge: CUP.
  • López-Couso, María José & Belén Méndez-Naya. 2015. Secondary grammaticalization in clause combining: From adverbial subordination to complementation in English. Language Sciences 47, 188-98.
  • López-Couso, María José & Paula Rodríguez-Puente. 2012. Corpus compilation within the research unit Variation, Linguistic Change and Grammaticalization: COLMOBAENG, ARCHER, and CHELAR. Paper presented at Workshop English Historical Corpora Compiled in Spain, IV Congreso Internacional de Lingüística de Corpus, Jaén, 21 March 2012.
  • Méndez-Naya, Belén. 2011. A preliminary study of the history of the intensifier utterly. Paper presented at 35th AEDEAN International Conference, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 16-18 November 2011.
  • Méndez-Naya, Belén. 2012. A preliminary study of the history of the intensifier utterly. In Sara Martín Alegre, Melissa Moyer, Elisabet Pladevall & Susagna Tubau (eds.), At a time of crisis: English and American studies in Spain. Works from the 35th AEDEAN Conference, 368-75. Barcelona: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
  • Meyer, Pius. 2012. On the allomorphy of the indefinite article. Lizentiatsarbeit, Zurich.
  • Mollin, Sandra. 2017. Developments in the frequency of English binomials, 1600-2000. In Joanna Kopaczyk & Hans Sauer (eds.), Binomials in the history of English: Fixed and flexible. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 279-295.
  • Nesselhauf, Nadja. 2011a. The development of future time expressions in Late Modern English: Redistribution of forms or change in discourse? English Language and Linguistics14.2, 163-186.
  • Nesselhauf, Nadja. 2011b. Temporal specifiers and markers of futurity: Rethinking factors of variation. ICAME Journal 35, 159-176.
  • Nesselhauf, Nadja. 2012. Mechanisms of language change in a functional system: The recent semantic evolution of English future time expressions. Journal of Historical Linguistics 2.1, 83-132.
  • Núñez-Pertejo, Paloma. 2011. A preliminary study of absolutely in Late Modern English: Evidence from eighteenth and nineteenth-century British and American English. In José R. Ibáñez Ibáñez & José Francisco Fernández Sánchez (eds.), A view from the South: Contemporary English and American studies, 219-27. Almería: Editorial Universidad de Almería.
  • Núñez-Pertejo, Paloma. 2013. From degree adverb to response token: Absolutely in Late Modern and contemporary British and American English. Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 114, 245-273.
  • Pérez-Guerra, Javier. 2012. Discourse status and syntax in the history of English: Some explorations in topicalization, left-dislocation and there-constructions. In Anneli Meurman-Solin, María José López-Couso & Bettelou Los (eds.), Information structure and syntactic change in the history of English, 121-38. New York: OUP.
  • Pérez-Guerra, Javier & Ana Elina Martínez-Insua. 2010. Do some genres or text types become more complex than others? In Heidrun Dorgeloch & Anja Wanner (eds.), Syntactic variation and genre, 111-140. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
  • Rissanen, Matti. 2010. On the history of unless. In Merja Kytö, John Scahill & Harumi Tanabe (eds.), Language change and variation from Old English to Late Modern English: A Festschrift for Minoji Akimoto, 327-347. Bern: Peter Lang.
  • Rissanen, Matti. 2011. On the long history of English adverbial subordinators. In A. Meurman-Solin & U. Lenker (eds.), Connectives in synchrony and diachrony in European languages. Helsinki: VARIENG. http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/series/volumes/08/rissanen/.
  • Rissanen, Matti. 2012a. Corpora and the study of the history of English. In Merja Kytö (ed.),English corpus linguistics: Crossing paths, 197-220. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
  • Rissanen, Matti. 2012b. Grammaticalisation, contact and corpora: On the development of adverbial subordinators in English. In Irén Hegedus & Alexandra Fodor (eds.), English Historical Linguistics 2010: Selected papers from the Sixteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 16), Pécs, 23-27 August 2010, 131-52. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  • Rissanen, M. 2014a. From medieval to modern: On the development of the adverbial connective considering (that). In I. Taavitsainen, M. Kytö, C. Claridge & J. Smith (eds.),Developments in English: Expanding electronic evidence, 98-115. CUP.
  • Rissanen, M. 2014b. On English historical corpora, with notes on the development of adverbial connectives. In A. Alcaraz-Sintes & S. Valera-Hernández (eds.), Diachrony and synchrony in english corpus linguistics, 109-139. Peter Lang.
  • Rodríguez-Abruñeiras, Paula. 2010a. For example and for instance as markers of exemplification in Present-day English: A corpus-based study. In Isabel Moskowich-Spiegel et al. (eds.), Language windowing through corpora, 747-58. A Coruña: Servizo de Publicacións da Universidade de A Coruña.
  • Rodríguez-Abruñeiras, Paula. 2010b. Including and included as markers of exemplification: A diachronic study. In Rafael Galán Moya et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd AEDEAN International Conference, 267-78. Cádiz: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Cádiz.
  • Rodríguez-Abruñeiras, Paula. 2010c. Exemplifying markers in English: On the history of for example and for instance. Paper presented at ICAME 31, Giessen.
  • Rodríguez-Abruñeiras, Paula. 2010d. On the role of language contact in the rise of exemplifying markers in English. Paper presented at Joint Advanced Studies Group in Linguistics (JASGIL), Basel.
  • Rodríguez-Abruñeiras, Paula. 2010e. Rethinking apposition: Is inclusion a case of apposition? Paper presented at SLE43, Vilnius.
  • Rodríguez-Abruñeiras, Paula. 2011. Apposition vs. exemplification with including and includedas markers: Same or different categories? In F. Javier Ruano García et al. (eds.), Current trends in anglophone studies: Cultural, linguistic and literary research, 121-30. Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca.
  • Rodríguez-Abruñeiras, Paula. 2012a. From full verbal forms to markers of exemplification:Including and included as a case of grammaticalisation?. In David Tizón-Couto, Beatriz Tizón-Couto, Iria Pastor-Gómez & Paula Rodríguez-Puente (eds.), New trends and methodologies in applied English language research II: Studies in variation, meaning and learning, 125-41. Bern, etc.: Peter Lang.
  • Rodríguez-Abruñeiras, Paula. 2012b. Exemplifying constructions with for example and for instance as markers: A historical account. In Joybrato Mukherjee & Magnus Huber (eds.),Corpus linguistics and variation in English: Theory and description, 155-63. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
  • Rodríguez-Abruñeiras, Paula. 2012c. Exemplifying constructions in English: A historical survey. Paper presented at ICAME 33, Leuven.
  • Rodríguez-Puente, Paula. 2010a. Some issues about English phrasal verbs. Paper presented at Langwidge Sandwidge, English Language and Linguistics Seminar, Department of Linguistics and English Language, Manchester.
  • Rodríguez-Puente, Paula. 2010b. Some issues about English phrasal verbs with especial reference to the Late Modern English Period. Paper presented at Postgraduate Presentation Day 2010, Manchester.
  • Rodríguez-Puente, Paula. 2010c. I’ll ring you or I’ll ring you up: From directional adverb to derivational affix? Paper presented at 16th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL16), Pécs.
  • Rodríguez-Puente, Paula. 2010d. Phrasal verbs in Late Modern English: Evidence from ARCHER 3.1. In Javier Pérez-Guerra et al. (eds.), Analysing data > Describing variation. Proceedings of the XXVIII International Conference of AESLA, 865-73. Vigo: Vigo.
  • Rodríguez-Puente, Paula. 2011a. Talking private with phrasal verbs: A corpus-based study of English phrasal verbs from 1650 to 1999. Paper presented at Helsinki Corpus Festival: The past, present and future of English historical corpora, Helsinki.
  • Rodríguez-Puente, Paula. 2011b. English phrasal verbs from 1650 to 1999: Combinations withaway, back, down, forth, off, out and up as a test case. Paper presented at CLAVIER 11. Tracking Language Change in Specialised and Professional Genres, Modena e Reggio Emilia.
  • Rodríguez-Puente, Paula. 2012a. On the colloquialisation of genres or the ‘drift’ to more oral styles: Phrasal verbs in focus. Paper presented at the 17th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL17), 20-25 August, Zurich.
  • Rodríguez-Puente, Paula. 2012b. Talking ‘private’ with phrasal verbs: A corpus-based study of the use of phrasal verbs in diaries, journals and private letters. In Jukka Tyrkkö, Terttu Nevalainen, Matti Rissanen & Matti Kilpiö (eds.), Studies in variation, contacts and change in English (VARIENG) Proceedings of the Helsinki Corpus Festival,http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/journal/volumes/10/rodriguez-puente/.
  • Rodríguez-Puente, Paula. 2012c. ‘These I had never before observed down’. A corpus-based study of phrasal verbs in Late Modern English. Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 113.4, 433-56.
  • Rodríguez-Puente, Paula. 2012d. The development of non-compositional meanings in phrasal verbs: A corpus-based study. English Studies 93.1, 71-90.
  • Rodríguez-Puente, Paula. 2012e. Phrasal verbs in ARCHER 3.1: Notes on register and style. Paper presented at VARIENG Research Seminar, Helsinki.
  • Rodríguez-Puente, Paula. 2013a. A turn of the screw in the semantics of phrasal verbs: Phrasal verbs with up as a test case. In Irén Hegedüs & Dóra Pödör (eds.), Periphrasis, replacement and renewal: Studies in English historical linguistics, 243-65. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  • Rodríguez-Puente, Paula. 2013b. A preliminary approach to particle placement from the diachronic perspective. Paper presented at 37th AEDEAN Conference, Oviedo.
  • Rodríguez-Puente, Paula. 2013c. Are phrasal verbs really colloquial? Evidence from the history of English. Paper presented at International Symposium on Verbs, Clauses and Constructions. Theory, Variation and Change (VCCSymposium 2013), La Rioja.
  • Rodríguez-Puente, Paula. 2014a. Particle placement in Late Modern English and Twentieth-century English. Paper presented at ICAME 35, Nottingham.
  • Rodríguez-Puente, Paula. 2014b. Colloquialization and ‘decolloquialization’: Phrasal verbs in formal contexts: 1650-1990. In Simone E. Pfenninger et al. (eds.), Contact, variation and change in the history of English, 163-86. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  • Rodríguez-Puente, Paula. 2015a. Phrasal verbs in the spoken language of the past: Formal and stylistic features. Paper presented at 7th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC2015), Valladolid.
  • Rodríguez-Puente, Paula. 2015b. Phrasal verbs across genres, 1650-1990: Exploring the formal-informal continuum. Paper presented at Seminario Modular Plurilingüe de Lengua y Literatura ‘Nuevas perspectivas en el estudio del patrimonio lingüístico-literario’, Cantabria.
  • Rodríguez-Puente, Paula. 2015c. Diachronic cross-genre comparisons in the use of phrasal verbs (1650-1990). Paper presented at ICAME 36, Trier.
  • Rodríguez-Puente, Paula. 2016. Particle placement in Late Modern English and twentieth-century English: Morpho-syntactic variables. Folia Linguistica Historica 37.
  • Rodríguez-Puente, Paula. forthcoming. Tracking down phrasal verbs in the spoken language of the past: Late Modern English in focus. English Language and Linguistics.
  • Rodríguez-Puente, Paula & Nuria Yáñez-Bouza. 2014. Given my purse away! To whom? said the widow – Phrasal particles and prepositions in historical diaries and journals. Paper presented at 38th AEDEAN Conference, Alcalá de Henares.
  • Schlüter, Julia. 2013. Using historical literature databases as corpora. In Manfred Krug & Julia Schlüter (eds.), Research methods in language variation and change, 119-35. Cambridge: CUP.
  • Schneider, Gerold. 2012. Adapting a parser to historical English. In Jukka Tyrkkö, Terttu Nevalainen, Matti Rissanen & Matti Kilpiö (eds.), Studies in variation, contacts and change in English (VARIENG) Proceedings of the Helsinki Corpus Festival,http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/journal/volumes/10/schneider/.
  • Schneider, Gerold. 2015. Invited demonstration at d2e – From Data to Evidence, Helsinki.
  • Schneider, Gerold, Menna El-Assady & Hans Martin Lehmann. To appear. Tools and methods for processing and visualizing large corpora. Helsinki: VARIENG.
  • Schneider, Gerold & Marianne Hundt. 2014. Part-of-speech annotation in historical corpora: Comparative evaluation of tagger output. Poster at ICEHL18, Leuven.
  • Schneider, Gerold, Marianne Hundt & Rahel Oppliger. 2016. Part-of-speech in historical corpora: Tagger evaluation and ensemble systems on ARCHER. Paper presented at Proceedings of KONVENS, Bochum.
  • Schneider, Gerold, Hans Martin Lehmann & Peter Schneider. 2015. Parsing Early and Late Modern English corpora. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 30.3, 423-439.
  • Schneider, Gerold, Eva Pettersson & Michael Percillier. 2017. Comparing rule-based and SMT-based spelling normalisation for English historical texts. Paper presented at NoDaLiDa 2017, Workshop on Processing Historical Language, Gothenburg.
  • Seoane, Elena. 2010. The effect of prominence hierarchies on Modern English long passives: Pragmatic vs. syntactic factors. Miscelánea 41, 93-106.
  • Seoane, Elena. 2012. Givenness and word order: A study of long passives in Modern and Present-Day English. In Anneli Meurman-Solin, María José López-Couso & Bettelou Los (eds.), Information structure and syntactic change in the history of English, 139-163. Oxford: OUP.
  • Seoane, Elena. 2013. On the conventionalisation and loss of pragmatic function of the passive in Late Modern English scientific discourse. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 14.1, 70-99.
  • Smitterberg, Erik. 2016. Non-correlative commas between subjects and verbs in speech-related nineteenth-century English. Paper presented at symposium ‘Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of A Corpus of English Dialogues 1560–1760: Research on Historical Corpora of Speech-related Texts’, Mid-Sweden University.
  • Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt. 2013. The great regression: Genitive variability in Late Modern English news texts. In Kersti Börjars, David Denison & Alan Scott (eds.), Morphosyntactic categories and the expression of possession, 59-88. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  • Whitt, Richard J. 2010a. Evidentiality and perception verbs in English and German. Oxford and Bern: Peter Lang.
  • Whitt, Richard J. 2010b. Evidentiality, polysemy, and the verbs of perception in English and German. In Gabriele Diewald & Elena Smirnova (eds.), The linguistic realization of evidentiality in European languages, 249-278. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
  • Whitt, Richard J. 2011. (Inter)subjectivity and evidential perception verbs in English and German. Journal of Pragmatics 43.1, 347-360.
  • Whitt, Richard Jason. 2014. Singular perception, multiple perspectives through we: Constructing intersubjective meaning in English and German. In Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou (ed.), Constructing collectivity: ‘We’ across languages and contexts, 45-64. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
  • Whitt, Richard J. 2015. On the grammaticalization of inferential evidential meaning: English seem and German scheinen. Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis 20.2.
  • Whitt, Richard J. 2016. Evidentialitätsmarker in deutschen und englischen wissenschaftlichen Texten der (frühen) Neuzeit. Akten des XIII. internationalen Germanistenkongresses Schanghai 2015. Peter Lang.
  • Whitt, Richard J. under review. Using corpora to track changing thought styles: Evidentiality, epistemology, and Early Modern English and German scientific discourse. Kalbotyra 68.
  • Whitt, Richard J. TBD. Evidentialität und Diskurs im Wandel: Eine korpusbasierte Untersuchung von deutschen und englischen wissenschaftlichen Texten, 1500-1800. In Michael Prinz & Jürgen Schiewe (eds.), Entstehung und Frühgeschichte der modernen deutschen Wissenschaftssprachen: Vernakuläre Gelehrtenkommunikation in der Frühen Neuzeit.
  • Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria. 2015. Grammar, rhetoric and usage in English: Preposition placement 1500-1900. Cambridge: CUP.
  • Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria. 2016. Daily jottings: Preposition placement in diaries and travel journals from 1500 to 1900. Folia Linguistica Historica 37.1, 281-314.
  • Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria & David Denison. 2015. Which comes first in the double object construction? English Language and Linguistics 19.2, 247-68.
Publications using ARCHER, 2006-2009
  • Allen, Cynthia L. 2008. Genitives in early English: Typology and evidence. Oxford: OUP.
  • Auer, Anita. 2006a. Die Entwicklung des synthetischen Konjunktivs im Frühneuenglischen (1700-1900). Invited talk at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (Germany), 26 April 2006.
  • Auer, Anita. 2006b. Measuring the effectiveness of eighteenth-century grammars. Paper presented at the Perspectives on Prescriptivism Colloquium, Ragusa (Italy), 20-22 April 2006.
  • Auer, Anita. 2006c. Precept and practice: The influence of prescriptivism on the English subjunctive. In Christiane Dalton-Puffer, Dieter Kastovsky, Nikolaus Ritt & Herbert Schendl (eds.), Syntax, style and grammatical norms: English from 1500-2000, 33-53. Frankfurt; Bern, etc.: Peter Lang.
  • Auer, Anita. 2007. Österreichisches Deutsch ist eine würde-volle Sprache – The subjunctive mood in eighteenth-century Austria. Leiden Working Papers in Linguistics 4.1, 1-20.
  • Auer, Anita. 2008. The subjunctive in the Age of Prescriptivism: English and German developments during the eighteenth century . Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Auer, Anita & Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade. 2007. Robert Lowth and the use of the inflectional subjunctive in eighteenth-century English. In Ute Smit, Stefan Dollinger, Julia Hüttner, Ursula Lutzky & Gunther Kaltenböck (eds.), Tracing English through time: Explorations in language variation, 1-18. Vienna: Braumüller.
  • Azad, Sehar. 2007. The doctor’s orders: Prescription of eighteenth-century grammarians and the implications for the written language. Senior Honors Thesis, University of Michigan.
  • Baron, A., P. Rayson & D. Archer. 2009. Word frequency and key word statistics in historical corpus linguistics. Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 20.1, 41-67.
  • Biber, Douglas & Susan Conrad. 2009. Register, genre, and style. Cambridge and New York: CUP.
  • Broccias, Cristiano & Nicholas Smith. 2007. Temporal as- and while-clauses: Change and continuity in their aspectual associations and restrictions from Late Modern English. Third Late Modern English Conference, Leiden, 30 August-1 September 2007.
  • Chao-Castro, Milagros. 2008. Dual-form adverbs and genre: The figurative and literal use of adverbial variants. Paper presented at the 29th Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME 29), Ascona, 14-18 May 2008.
  • Cort, Alison. 2006. Recent and current change in the modal verb. Submitted (but never corrected and revised) PhD dissertation, University of Manchester.
  • Cort, Alison, David Denison & Mariangela Spinillo. 2006. The changing status of the minor categories Determiner and Modal. Paper presented at 14ICEHL, Bergamo.
  • Denison, David. 2007. Modal better: A subjective history. Paper presented at the University of Sheffield and at colloquium on theme ‘Le Verbe’ organised by Groupe de Recherches en Linguistique Anglaise SESYLIA de Paris 3.
  • Faya, Fátima. 2007. On the competition of the courtesy markers please, pray and if you please in the period 1850-1950: Evidence from ARCHER. Paper presented at the 28th Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME 28), Stratford-upon-Avon, 23-27 May 2007.
  • González-Cruz, Ana Isabel. 2007. On the subjectification of adverbial clause connectives: Semantic and pragmatic considerations on the development ofwhile-clauses. In Ursula Lenker & Anneli Meurman-Solin (eds.), Connectives in the history of English, 145-166. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
  • González-Díaz, Victorina. 2008. Recent developments in English intensifiers: The case ofvery much. English Language and Linguistics 12.2, 221-243.
  • Hamilton, Nadia. 2006. Semantic change in Middle/early Modern English using a corpus. BA dissertation, University of Manchester.
  • Hundt, Marianne. 2007. English mediopassive constructions: A cognitive, corpus-based study of their origin, spread, and current status. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
  • Hundt, Marianne. 2009. Colonial lag, colonial innovation, or simply language change? In Günter Rohdenburg & Julia Schlüter (eds.), One language, two grammars? (Studies in English Language), 13-37. Cambridge: CUP.
  • Kranich, Svenja. 2008. Subjective progressives in seventeenth and eighteenth century English: Secondary grammaticalization as a process of objectification. In Maurizio Gotti, Marina Dossena & Richard Dury (eds.), English historical linguistics 2006. Vol. I, Syntax and morphology, 241-256. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
  • Kranich, Svenja. 2009. Interpretative progressives in Late Modern English. In Wim van der Wurff & Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (eds.), Current issues in Late Modern English, 331-360. Bern: Peter Lang.
  • Krug, Manfred. 2009. Modality and the history of English adhortatives. In Raphael Salkie, Pierre Busuttil & Johan van der Auwera (eds.), Modality in English: Theory and Description, 315-347. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
  • Laitinen, Mikko. 2009. Singular YOU WAS/WERE variation and English normative grammars in the eighteenth century. In Arja Nurmi, Minna Nevala & Minna Palander-Collin (eds.), The language of daily life in England (1400-1800), 199-217. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  • Leech, Geoffrey, Marianne Hundt, Christian Mair & Nicholas Smith. 2009. Change in contemporary English: A grammatical study. Cambridge: CUP.
  • López-Couso, María José. 2007a. Auxiliary and negative cliticisation in Late Modern English. In Javier Pérez-Guerra et al. (eds.), Of varying language and opposing creed: New insights into Late Modern English, 301-323. Bern: Peter Lang.
  • López-Couso, María José. 2007b. Adverbial connectives within and beyond adverbial subordination: The history of lest. In Ursula Lenker & Anneli Meurman-Solin (eds.), Clausal connection in the history of English, 11-29. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
  • López-Couso, María José & Belén Méndez-Naya. 2007. The declarative use of complementizerhow: Late Modern English in focus. Paper presented at 3rd Late Modern English Conference. Leiden, 30 August-1 September 2007.
  • López-Couso, María José & Belén Méndez-Naya. 2008a. More on the complementizer use of ifand though in the history of English. Paper presented at 29th Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME 28), Ascona 14-18 May 2008.
  • López-Couso, María José & Belén Méndez-Naya. 2008b. ‘It looks as if it’s a complementizer’: On the origin and development of the minor declarative complementizers as if and as though. 15th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (15 ICEHL). Munich, 24-30 August 2008.
  • López-Couso, María José & Belén Méndez-Naya. 2008c. On the margins of complementation: Exploring complementizer choice in the history of English. Paper presented at First Triennial Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE 1), Freiburg, 8-11 October 2008.
  • López-Couso, María José & Belén Méndez-Naya. 2008d. Low-frequency phenomena in the light of historical corpora: The case of minor declarative complementizers. Invited presentation at the symposium Corpora and the history of English: ARCHER3 and beyond, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), Freiburg 12 December 2008.
  • López-Couso, María José & Belén Méndez-Naya. 2009a. Beyond the adverbial domain: On the complementizer use of adverbial subordinators in the history of English. Paper presented at English Linguistics Circle, Santiago de Compostela (Spain), 29 January 2009.
  • López-Couso, María José & Belén Méndez-Naya. 2009b. On the complementizer use of comparative subordinators in English: Synchronic and diachronic aspects. 42nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE42), Lisbon (Portugal), 9-12 September 2009.
  • López-Couso, María José & Javier Pérez-Guerra. 2006. Negative contraction in Modern and Contemporary English: Simultaneous, intersecting and independent forces. Paper presented at 27th Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME 27), Helsinki, 24-28 May 2006.
  • Martínez-Insua, Ana E. & Javier Pérez-Guerra. 2006. ‘There’s Bjørg’: on there-sentences in the recent history of English. In Leiv Egil Breivik, Sandra Halverson & Kari E. Haugland (eds.), ‘These things write I vnto the…’: Essays in honour of Bjørg Bækken, 189-211. Oslo: Novus Press.
  • Martínez-Insua, Ana E. & Javier Pérez-Guerra. 2007. It is more complex to read letters than drama (really?): On linguistic complexity and text-type variation in the recent history of English. Paper presented at the Poznan Linguistic Meeting. Poznan (Poland), 13-16 September 2007.
  • Martínez-Insua, Ana E. & Javier Pérez-Guerra. 2008. Discourse coherence in the recent history of English. Paper presented at the Colloque International MIC 2008 ‘La cohérence du discourse: texte et théorie’, Paris, 18-20 September 2008.
  • Meyer, Pius. 2009. A or an and h. On the allomorphy of the indefinite article as an indicator of h-onset from the 17th century to the present. Seminar paper, University of Zürich.
  • Moore, Colette. 2007. The spread of grammaticalized forms: The case of be + supposed to.Journal of English Linguistics 35.2, 117-131.
  • Nesselhauf, Nadja. 2006. The decline of be to and the rise of be going to in Late Modern English: Connection or coincidence? In Christoph Houswitschka, Gabriele Knappe & Anja Müller (eds.), Anglistentag 2005 Bamberg Proceedings, 515-529. Trier: WVT.
  • Nesselhauf, Nadja. 2007a. Diachronic analysis with the internet? Will and shall in ARCHER and in a corpus of e-texts from the web. In Marianne Hundt, Nadja Nesselhauf & Carolin Biewer (eds.), Corpus Linguistics and the Web, 287-305. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi.
  • Nesselhauf, Nadja. 2007b. The spread of the progressive and its ‘future’ use. English Language and Linguistics 11.1, 193-209.
  • Núñez-Pertejo, Paloma. 2007a. Some observations on the semantics of the progressive in the eighteenth century: Aspectual and non aspectual functions? In María Losada Friend, Pilar Ron Vaz, Sonia Hernández Santano & Jorge Casanova (eds.), Proceedings of the 30th International AEDEAN Conference. Huelva: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Huelva. [CD-ROM]
  • Núñez-Pertejo, Paloma. 2007b. Aspects of the use of the progressive in the 18th century. In Javier Pérez-Guerra et al. (eds.), ‘Of varying language and opposing creed’: New insights into Late Modern English (Linguistic Insights 28), 359-82. Bern: Peter Lang.
  • Pérez-Guerra, Javier. 2008a. It is the development of it-clefts in the recent history of English that I shall tackle in this paper. Paper presented at the Cleft Workshop, Berlin (Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft), 28-29 November 2008.
  • Pérez-Guerra, Javier. 2008b. Referentiality and syntax in the recent history of English. Paper presented at the 15th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Munich, 29 August 2008.
  • Pérez-Guerra, Javier & Ana E. Martínez-Insua. 2006. Complexification as a metric of diachronic text-type characterisation. Paper presented at the 30th International AEDEAN Conference, Huelva (Spain), 15 December 2006.
  • Pérez-Guerra, Javier & Ana E. Martínez-Insua. 2007a. A fine-grained study of structural complexity in the recent history of English. Paper presented at Studies in the History of the English Language (SHEL), Athens, University of Georgia, 4-6 October 2007.
  • Pérez-Guerra, Javier & Ana E. Martínez-Insua. 2007b. Complexification as a metric of diachronic text-type characterisation. In María Losada Friend, Pilar Ron Vaz, Sonia Hernández Santano y Jorge Casanova (eds.), Proceedings of the 30th International AEDEAN Conference. Huelva: Universidad de Huelva (Servicio de Publicaciones). [CD-ROM]
  • Pérez-Guerra, Javier & Ana E. Martínez-Insua. 2007c. Do some genres become ‘more’ complex than others? Paper presented at the 29th International Conference of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (29 DGfS), Arbeitsgruppe ‘Syntactic variation and emerging genres’, Siegen (Germany), 29 March 2007.
  • Pérez-Guerra, Javier & Ana E. Martínez-Insua. 2007d. NP-based complexification in Late Modern English. Paper presented at the Third Late Modern English Conference, Leiden (The Netherlands), 30 August 2007.
  • Pérez-Guerra, Javier & Ana E. Martínez-Insua. 2007e. Subjects and complexity in the recent history of English. Paper presented at Directions in English Language Studies (DELS), Manchester, 6-9 April 2006.
  • Pérez-Guerra, Javier & Ana E. Martínez-Insua. 2008a. Complejidad sintáctica y estructural de constituyentes nominales en la historia reciente de la lengua inglesa. Paper presented at the XXVI Congreso AESLA (Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada), Almería (Spain), 3-5 April 2008.
  • Pérez-Guerra, Javier & Ana E. Martínez-Insua. 2008b. Scaling texts by measuring their linguistic complexity: An experiment with Late Middle and Modern English data. Paper presented at the 20th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (SELIM), Oviedo (Spain), 2-4 October 2008.
  • Pérez-Guerra, Javier & Ana Elina Martínez-Insua. 2009a. NP-based modification strategies in the recent history of the English language (‘when Matter is no longer modified’). In Pascual Cantos Gómez & Aquilino Sánchez Pérez (eds.), A survey on corpus-based research. Panorama de investigaciones basadas en corpus, 1156-1170. Murcia: Spanish Society (AELINCO).
  • Pérez-Guerra, Javier & Ana Elina Martínez-Insua. 2009b. Complejidad sintáctica y estructural de constituyentes nominales en la historia reciente de la lengua inglesa. In Carmen M. Bretones et al. (eds.), Applied linguistics now: Understanding language and mind, 1473-1497. Almería: University of Almería.
  • Pérez-Guerra, Javier, Dolores González-Álvarez, Jorge Luis Bueno-Alonso & Esperanza Rama-Martínez. 2007. ‘Of varying language and opposing creed’: Five first details are being depicted. In Javier Pérez-Guerra, Dolores González-Álvarez, Jorge Luis Bueno-Alonso & Esperanza Rama-Martínez (eds.), ‘Of varying language and opposing creed’. New insights into Late Modern English, 11-24. Bern: Peter Lang.
  • Rissanen, Matti. 2008a. Corpus linguistics and historical linguistics. In Anke Lüdeling & Merja Kytö (eds), Corpus linguistics: An international handbook, vol. 1, 53-68. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter.
  • Rissanen, Matti. 2008b. From ‘quickly’ to ‘fairly’: On the history of rather. English Language and Linguistics 12.2, 345-359.
  • Rissanen, Matti. 2009. Grammaticalisation, contact and adverbial connectives: The rise and decline of save. In Shinichiro Watanabe & Yukiteru Hosoya (eds.), English philology and corpus studies: A Festschrift in honour of Mitsunori Imai to celebrate his seventieth birthday, 135-152. Tokyo: Shohakusha Publishing.
  • Rodríguez-Abruñeiras, Paula. 2009. Including and included as appositive markers of exemplification: A prototypical case of apposition? MA Dissertation, University of Santiago de Compostela.
  • Rodríguez-Puente, Paula. 2009a. From literal to idiomatic: On the idiomatization of phrasal verbs. Poster presented at the 30th Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME 30), Lancaster, 27-31 May 2009.
  • Rodríguez-Puente, Paula. 2009b. And new meanings turned up: The development of new meanings of English phrasal verbs with up: Evidence from the Helsinki Corpus and ARCHER 1. Paper presented at AACL 2009 (American Association for Corpus Linguistics), Edmonton, Alberta, 8-11 October 2009.
  • Rosenbach, Anette. 2007. Emerging variation: Determiner genitives and noun modifiers in English. English Language and Linguistics 11.1, 143-189.
  • Seoane, Elena. 2008. The conventionalization of the passive in Late Modern scientific English. In María Jesús Lorenzo Modia (ed.), Proceedings of 31st International Conference of AEDEAN, 291-302. University of A Coruña.
  • Seoane, Elena. 2009. Syntactic complexity, discourse status and animacy as determinants of grammatical variation in Modern English. English Language and Linguistics 13, 365-384.
  • Smith, Nicholas. 2008. From aspect to pragmatics: Will+ be -ing and shall + be -ing. Invited talk, Langwidge Sandwidge, University of Manchester, 22 April 2008.
  • Smith, Nicholas & Beatrix Busse. 2007. Obligational hedged performatives in 19th- and 20th-century British English. 10th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA), Göteborg, Sweden, 8-13 July 2007.
  • Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt. 2009. What happened to the s-genitive? The English genitive alternation in Modern English. Workshop on Morpho-syntactic categories and the expression of possession, The University of Manchester, 3-4 April 2009.
  • Tissari, Heli. 2008a. Happiness and joy in corpus contexts: A cognitive semantic analysis. In Heli Tissari, Anne Birgitta Pessi & Mikko Salmela (eds.), Happiness: Cognition, experience, language, 144-174. Helsinki: Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki.
  • Tissari, Heli. 2008b. On the concept of sadness: Looking at words in contexts derived from corpora. In Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (ed.), Corpus linguistics, computer tools, and applications: State of the art, 291-308. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
  • Valkonen, Petteri, 2008. Showing a little promise: Identifying and retrieving explicit illocutionary acts from a corpus of written prose. In Andreas H. Jucker & Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), Speech acts in the history of English, 247-272. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Benjamins.
  • Whitt, Richard J. 2009. Auditory evidentiality in English and German: The case of perception verbs. Lingua 119.7, 1083-1095.
  • Wild, Kate. 2006. A diachronic study of the verb give. MPhil dissertation, University of Glasgow.
  • Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria. 2006a. Gender variation and syntactic variation: Preposition stranding in Modern English. Paper presented at International Conference on Language History from Below – Linguistic Variation in Germanic Languages from 1700 to 2000, University of Bristol, 6-8 April 2006.
  • Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria. 2006b. Never use a preposition to end a sentence with: The rule and the usage. Paper presented at 14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL), University of Bergamo (Italy), 21-25 August 2006.
  • Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria. 2007a. Preposition stranding and prescriptivism in English from 1500 to 1900. Paper presented at 1st Summer School in Historical Sociolinguistics, Lesbos (Greece), 16-23 August 2007. Organised by the Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN).
  • Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria. 2007b. Preposition stranding and prescriptivism in English from 1500 to 1900: A corpus-based approach. PhD dissertation, The University of Manchester.
  • Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria. 2007c. Preposition stranding in the social history of English from 1500 to 1900: A corpus-based approach. Paper presented at English Linguistics Circle (ELC), University of Vigo, 31 May 2007. Organised by the University of Santiago and the University of Vigo (Spain).
  • Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria. 2008. Placing prepositions in early and late Modern English texts: Genre variation and idiolectal preferences. 9th Triangle Colloquium, 27 September 2008, Manchester (UK).
Publications using ARCHER, 1992-2005
  • Biber, D. 1992. Using computer-based text corpora to analyse the referential strategies of spoken and written texts. In Jan Svartvik (ed.), Directions in Corpus Linguistics: Proceedings of Nobel Symposium 82, Stockholm, 4-8 August 1991, 213-252. Berlin: Mouton.
  • Biber, D. 1993a. Using register-diversified corpora for general language studies. Computers and the Humanities 19, 219-41.
  • Biber, D. 1993b. The multi-dimensional approach to linguistic analyses of genre variation: An overview of methodology and findings. Computers and the Humanities 26, 331-45.
  • Biber, D. 2001. Dimensions of variation among 18th century registers. In H-J. Diller & M. Görlach (eds.), Towards a history of English as a history of genres, 89-110. Heidelberg: C. Winter. (Reprinted in Conrad & Biber (eds.) (2001), 200-214.)
  • Biber, Douglas. 2004a. Modal use across registers and time. In Anne Curzan & Kimberly Emmons (eds.), Studies in the history of the English language II: Unfolding conversations, 189-216. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
  • Biber, Douglas. 2004b. Historical patterns for the grammatical marking of stance: A cross-register comparison. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 5.1, 107-36.
  • Biber, D. & J. Burges. 2000. Historical change in the language use of women and men: Gender differences in dramatic dialogue. Journal of English Linguistics 28, 21-37. (Reprinted in Conrad & Biber (eds.) (2001), 157-170.)
  • Biber, Douglas & Victoria Clark. 2002. Historical shifts in modification patterns with complex noun phrase structures. In Teresa Fanego, María José López-Couso & Javier Pérez-Guerra (eds.), English historical syntax and morphology: Selected papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7-11 September 2000, 43-66. Amsterdam and Philadelphia PA: John Benjamins.
  • Biber, Douglas & Edward Finegan. 1992. The linguistic evolution of five written and speech-based genres from the 17th to the 20th centuries. In Matti Rissanen, Ossi Ihalainen, Terttu Nevalainen & Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), History of Englishes: New methods and interpretations in historical linguistics, 688-704. Berlin and New York: Mouton
  • Biber, D. & E. Finegan. 1994. Multi-dimensional analyses of authors’ styles: Some case studies from the eigtheenth century. In D. Ross & D. Brink (eds.), Research in Humanities Computing 3, 3-17. Oxford: OUP.
  • Biber, Douglas & Edward Finegan. 1997. Diachronic relations among speech-based and written registers in English. In Terttu Nevalainen & Leena Kahlas-Tarkka (eds.), To explain the present: Studies in the changing English language in honour of Matti Rissanen, 253-75. Helsinki: Société Néophilologique.
  • Denison, David. 1998. Syntax. In Suzanne Romaine (ed.), The Cambridge history of the English language, vol. 4, 1776-1997, 92-329. Cambridge: CUP.
  • Denison, David. 2001. Gradience and linguistic change. In Laurel J. Brinton (ed.), Historical linguistics 1999: Selected papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, 9-13 August 1999, 119-44. Amsterdam and Philadelphia PA: John Benjamins.
  • Denison, David. 2005. The grammaticalisations of sort of, kind of and type of in English. Paper presented at New Reflections on Grammaticalization 3, University of Santiago de Compostela, 17-20 July 2005.
  • Finegan, Edward & Douglas Biber. 1995. That and zero complementisers in Late Modern English: Exploring ARCHER from 1650-1990. In Bas Aarts & Charles Meyer (eds.), The verb in contemporary English, 241-57. Cambridge, etc: CUP.
  • Finegan, Edward & Douglas Biber. 1997. Relative markers in English: Fact and fancy. In Udo Fries, Viviane Müller & Peter Schneider (eds.), From Ælfric to the New York Times, 65-78. Amsterdam and Atlanta GA: Rodopi.
  • Hundt, Marianne. 2001. What corpora tell us about the grammaticalisation of voice in get-constructions. Studies in Language 25.1, 49-88.
  • Hundt, Marianne. 2004. The passival and the progressive passive: A case study of layering in the English aspect and voice systems. In Hans Lindquist & Christian Mair (eds.), Corpus approaches to grammaticalization in English, 79-120. Amsterdam and Philadelphia PA: John Benjamins.
  • Hundt, Marianne. 2004. Animacy, agentivity, and the spread of the progressive in modern English. English Language and Linguistics 8.1, 47-69.
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Publications on ARCHER

Biber, Douglas, Edward Finegan & Dwight Atkinson. 1994. ARCHER and its challenges: Compiling and exploring A Representative Corpus of Historical English Registers. In Udo Fries, Peter Schneider & Gunnel Tottie (eds.), Creating and using English language corpora. Papers from the 14th International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora, Zurich 1993, 1-13. Amsterdam: Rodopi.

Biber, Douglas, Edward Finegan, Dwight Atkinson, Ann Beck, Dennis Burges & Jene Burges. 1994. The design and analysis of the ARCHER corpus: A progress report [A Representative Corpus of Historical English Registers]. In Merja Kytö, Matti Rissanen & Susan Wright (eds.), Corpora across the centuries: Proceedings of the First International Colloquium on English Diachronic Corpora, St Catharine’s College Cambridge, 25-27 March 1993 (Language and Computers. Studies in Practical Linguistics 11), 3-6. Amsterdam & Atlanta: Rodopi.

Hardie, Andrew. 2012. CQPweb – combining power, flexibility and usability in a corpus analysis tool. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 17.3, 380-409. [This paper is not on ARCHER, but it is the standard reference for the web search tool used by ARCHER online]

López-Couso, María José & Belén Méndez-Naya. 2012a. Compiling British English legal texts: A contribution to ARCHER. In Nila Vázquez González (ed.) Creation and use of historical English corpora in Spain, 1-15. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria. 2011a. ARCHER past and present (1990-2010). ICAME Journal 35, 205-236.

Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria. 2011b. ARCHER past and present (1990-2011). Poster presented at the 32nd Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME 32), Oslo, 1-5 June 2011. Poster ARCHER 3.2 (PDF, 195 KB) now updated to October 2013.

Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria. 2012. Diaries and/vs journals in ARCHER. Paper presented at the ARCHER symposium, 30 March 2012. The University of Manchester, Manchester.

Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria. 2015. ‘Have you ever written a diary or a journal?’ Diurnal prose and register variation. Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 116.2, 449-474.

Entry for ARCHER in CoRD (Corpus Resource Database at VARIENG, Helsinki).