<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The paper presents a corpus-driven method for the detection of recent grammatical change in contemporary Czech newspapers. It is based on a large and homogeneous material (825 million tokens of a single newspaper) that covers a 23-year time span. The task is operationalised into finding the most relevant frequency change manifested by selected subsets of the Czech tagset. The results show changing proportions of parts of speech, nominal cases etc. that indicate a shift towards more “verbal” language associated with increasing informality of the newspaper register.</p></abstract>

The paper presents a corpus-driven method for the detection of recent grammatical change in contemporary Czech newspapers. It is based on a large and homogeneous material (825 million tokens of a single newspaper) that covers a 23-year time span. The task is operationalised into finding the most relevant frequency change manifested by selected subsets of the Czech tagset. The results show changing proportions of parts of speech, nominal cases etc. that indicate a shift towards more “verbal” language associated with increasing informality of the newspaper register.

Grammatical Change Trends in Contemporary Czech Newspapers

Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis

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The paper presents a corpus-driven method for the detection of recent grammatical change in contemporary Czech newspapers. It is based on a large and...

Grammatical Change Trends in Contemporary Czech Newspapers

Published Online: Jan 24, 2018

Page range: 238 - 248

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jazcas-2017-0033

Keywords
modern diachrony, language change, Czech, newspaper register, corpus composition

© 2017 Michal Křen, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Grammatical Change Trends in Contemporary Czech Newspapers

Published Online: Jan 24, 2018

Page range: 238 - 248

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jazcas-2017-0033

Keywordsmodern diachrony, language change, Czech, newspaper register, corpus composition

© 2017 Michal Křen, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
modern diachrony, language change, Czech, newspaper register, corpus composition