[Jenling] Vortrag: 6.11. Corpus-based studies of language variation: the case of Czech

[Martina Berrocal]

Liebe JenLing-ler,

anbei schicke ich den Abstract zum Vortrag "Corpus-based studies of
language variation: the case of Czech".

Mit besten Grüßen,
Martina Berrocal

Abstract:
Language variation presents one of the key research questions in linguistic
inquiry. As I would argue in my talk, due to the empirical nature of
linguistic variation it is best observed and studied via large language
corpora. Furthermore, to study language variation means not only to
enumerate its manifestations, but to take into consideration the function
it plays on different linguistic levels. With most of the functions of
language variation being employed at the textual level, it seems important
to focus specifically on variation of texts. This research framework was
coined more than 30 years ago by Douglas Biber in his seminal work on
multi-dimensional analysis (MDA) of register variability.
In my talk I will focus mainly on the issues and challenges of the study of
language variation in Czech, the first Slavic language with a full-blown
analysis of this kind. Apart from charting the space of variation of texts
in Czech I will briefly discuss also some of the applications of the
multi-dimensional model.
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