Towards a History of English as a History of Genres

18th-century AFPCs analysis Anglo-Saxon Chronicle annalistic Biber Biber & Finegan Cambridge Canterbury Tales Chaucer Chronicle clauses context conventions corpora Corpus Linguistics Davis defined Diachronic dialogue dimensions discourse community discussion drama Early English Early Modern Early Modern English edition examples expository fabliaux fiction formula French function Green Knight Guy of Warwick Helsinki Corpus historical linguistics history of English interaction Kohnen Kytö Lady Bertilak language change Latin letter-writing lines per turn linguistic features London luf-talkyng Margery Kempe Medieval Middle English Middle English romances narrative prose Nevalainen Old English Orosius participle patterns period personal letters present pronouns Raumolin-Brunberg register variation Richard Rolle Richardson 1984 Rissanen scientific writing Section semantic sermon Sir Gawain speech speech-based spoken standard structure style Swales syntactic syntax Taavitsainen text types tradition translated turn Ø typology verb deletion vernacular words per turn written registers