%0 Journal Article
%T Distribution of Word Classes in Old English and Old High German: A Preliminary Contrastive Study Based on The Battle of Maldon, Hildebrandslied and Ludwigslied
%A Anna Kami¨˝ska
%J Research in Language
%@ 2083-4616
%D 2007
%I 
%R 10.2478/v10015-007-0005-3
%X This paper presents an example of a historical study based on comparable corpora. It aims to analyse and compare the distribution of different parts of speech in Old English and Old High German, thus providing a quantitative basis for further conclusions concerning different patterns of the development of those two West-Germanic languages. A particular attention has been devoted to the frequencies of prepositions and pronouns, as there are considerable differences between the languages in this respect. In addition, the article is a an attempt to show the importance and relevance of computational data for contrastive historical linguistics and their role in supporting or disproving traditional theories.
%K word classes distribution
%K Old English
%K Old High German
%K West-Germanic
%K contrastive analysis
%K distribution of pronouns
%K distribution of prepositions
%K subject omission
%K inflectional vs. analytic
%U http://versita.metapress.com/content/xj6241u510415808/?p=1e2a0cba842342459d6cb9058834e6f5&pi=4