Another common interest of all researchers in this cluster is corpus linguistics: several members have developed or are involved in the development of historical corpora and/or corpus software. The cluster has particular strengths in historical dialectology, nineteenth-century letter-writing, syntactic and semantic change, identity and migration in early and late modern English and historical stylistics.
Key areas of interest are as follows:
- Enregisterment in varieties of English, with particular reference to the Yorkshire dialect
- Historical ego-documents (personal letters, diaries and first-person narratives)
- ‘Brain-drain’: academic migration in the UK
- The language of Jane Austen and her contemporaries
- The history and development of the Noun Phrase
- Language and Identity in the Early Modern English period
- Digital Humanities
Members of this cluster include:
Cluster Lead: Caterina Guardamagna
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