Yesterday, I sent a mail to the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication to ask them whether they have access to the ARCHER corpus, the Helsinki corpus, or any other corpora of historical English. I haven't heard from them yet.
My idea is to use these corpora to study historical changes in the frequency of different senses of words. So, for instance, revolution more frequently meant "circular movement" than "violent political change" until at least the 16th century. I'd like to qualify this idea by multiple quantitative studies for a paper on metaphor theory.
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