Text patterns can be described in several interwoven dimensions. This volume looks at examples of empirical studies of historical text types to show how quantitative methods from corpus linguistics can be productively combined with qualitative approaches based on manual annotations in order to identify changes in text patterns on various levels by examining characteristic linguistic units.
Britt-Marie Schuster, Universität Paderborn; Susanne Haaf-Dumont, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften.
