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    Visualizing the development of prose styles in Horse Manuals from Early Modern English to Present-Day English

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    This paper offers a data-driven analysis of the development of English prose styles in a single genre (instructive writing) dealing with a single topic (the correct way of feeding a horse) in 13 texts with publication dates ranging between 1565 to 2009. The texts are subjected to three investigations that offer visualizations of the findings: (i) a correspondence analysis of POS-tag trigrams; (ii) an association plot analysis; (iii) hierarchical clustering (dendograms). As the period selected – Early Modern English to Present-Day English – does not involve any major changes in English syntax, we expect to find developments that are predominantly stylistic

    Data accompanying "The Pentaset: identifying referential state primitives"

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    This dataset accompanies the paper "The Pentaset: identifying referential state primitives" by Erwin Komen, Bettelou Los and Ans van Kemenade.The dataset is retrieved using CorpusStudio (created by Erwin Komen) from the files of these corpora, which have been enhanced (by the depositors) with referential annotation using Cesax (created by Erwin Komen)

    Commissives

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    Intention

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    The loss of the indefinite pronoun man

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    The changing status of infinitival to

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    Innocent bystander: the loss of the indefinite pronoun man

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