Table of contents

1        Introduction

2        Glossary

3        Internet resources and software

3.1        Historical reference corpora

3.1.1        The Helsinki Corpus of English Texts (HC)

3.1.2        Penn Parsed Corpora of Historical English

3.1.3        A Representative Corpus of Historical English Registers (ARCHER)

3.2        Historical literature databases

3.3        Freely accessible resources

3.3.1        The Oxford Text Archive

3.3.2        Project Gutenberg

3.3.3        Many Books

3.4        Software

3.4.1        CorpusSearch

3.4.2        WordSmith

4        Example study I: the evolution of you

4.1        Evolution of you

4.2        Using literature databases in WordSmith

4.2.1        Choosing texts

4.2.2        Searching the texts

4.2.3        Analysing the frequency

4.2.4        Repeating the procedure

4.2.5        Generating a chart

4.3        Using the genuine search interface

4.3.1        Searching the EEPF

4.3.2        Analysing the frequency

4.3.3        Summary

5        Example Study II: durative and punctual aspects of burn

5.1        Aspect

5.2        Distribution of burnt and burned

5.3        Correlation between aspect and verb inflection

5.4        Conclusion

6        “Further Reading”

6.1        Biber & Finegan (1989)

6.2        Lindquist (2009)

6.3        Lüdeling & Kytö (2009)

6.4        McEnery, Xiao & Tono (2006)

6.5        Schlüter (2005)

       References

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