Data-intensive investigations of English / edited by Mikko Laitinen, Paula Rautionaho.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Laitinen, Mikko, editor.

Rautionaho, Paula, editor.

Series:

Studies in English language

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Research--Methodology.

English language.

English language--Data processing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026.

Summary:

"In this collection of innovative and original articles, an international team of scholars demonstrate the newest technological trends and data-intensive technologies in the empirical study of English linguistics. Through a range of in-depth case studies, it advocates for the use of advanced technologies and digital tools to enable study in this ever-evolving field. To achieve optimal coherence across the volume, each chapter answers a core question: 'How can data-intensive and computational methods help scholars answer research questions that are solidly grounded in the theoretical foundations of English linguistics?' Digitalization is expected to accelerate, and this development will continue to impact research in the humanities. This volume fills in a clear gap and will drive empirical linguistic research forward, by introducing a variety of innovative techniques and tools that not only offer new answers to old questions in English linguistics but also open up exciting new research questions in the field"-- Cambridge University Press.

Contents:

Data-intensive approaches to English linguistics / Mikko Laitinen, Paula Rautionaho, and Irene Taipale

What big data tells us about American English phonetics / William A. Kretzschmar Jr., Michael Olsen, Rachel Olsen, and Katherine Ireland

Do you reckon? : creating and testing a corpus of spoken Southern American English from the Digital Archive of Southern Speech (1970–1983) / Keiko Bridwell and Katherine Ireland

‘Scots for the masses’? : utilising a novel data-analysis facility to statistically explore late modern Scots in the digitised chapbooks collection / Sarah van Eyndhoven, Lisa Gotthard, and Rosa Filgueira

Combining collocation measures and distributional semantics to detect idioms / Gerold Schneider

Using data-intensive methods for unlocking expressiveness in word formation : the case of English name blending / Sabine Arndt-Lappe, Natalia Beliaeva, and Audrey Martin

Modals of future time reference across native and non-native Englishes : a variationist analysis / Paula Rautionaho and Lea Meriläinen

Bayesian multivariate analysis of complement selection : subject-control complements of the verb fear / Juho Ruohonen and Juhani Rudanko

Statistical modelling of syntactic complexity of English academic texts using ensemble machine learning : syntactic predictors of rhetorical sections / Maryam Nasseri

Implications of the replication crisis : some suggestions to improve reproducibility and transparency in data-intensive corpus linguistics / Martin Schweinberger.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge University Press, viewed December 10, 2025).

Other Format:

Print version: Data-intensive investigations of English

ISBN:

9781009415682

1009415689

OCLC:

1559964084

Publisher Number:

CIPO000314491

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license