Historical Text Corpora and the Conclusiveness of Linguistic Analysis
Anton Zimmerling
May 2024 

I discuss the methodology and conclusiveness of the corpus-based historical linguistics and analyze two formal models predicting the language-internal variation in Early Old Russian syntax. Linguistic models claiming a rigid distribution of grammatical features like ± overt realization of agreement markers activate hidden corpus characteristics such as profiles of text genres, chronology, vector of change, ± impact of L2, ± presence of supra-dialect features. In this case they can be valued and checked on text samples, where genre features are stable, while location and time vary.

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Reference:	lingbuzz/008117 (please use that when you cite this article)
Published in:	Computational Linguistics and Intellectual technologies, Vol. 20. Proceedings of the International Conference "Dialogue 2022". Moscow, 586 – 593. DOI: 10.28995/2075-7182-2022-21-586-593
keywords:	historical text corpora, conclusiveness, old russian, language-internal variation, clitics, syntax, phonology, semantics, morphology
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