Grammatical Change Trends in Contemporary Czech Newspapers

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 rel...

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Published in:Jazykovedný časopis 2017-12, Vol.68 (2), p.238-248
Main Author: Křen, Michal
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
corpus composition
Czech
Czech language
Diachronic analysis
Diachronic linguistics
Form classes
Grammatical change
Language
language change
modern diachrony
Morphology
newspaper register
Queries
Speech
Subsets
Trends
Variables
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0021-5597
1338-4287
DOI:10.1515/jazcas-2017-0033