Abstract
How can frequency data from diachronic corpora facilitate research into processes of language change? This paper uses an approach that dynamically visualizes complex patterns of language change (Hilpert 2011a). This technique can be likened to a ›flipbook‹ of language change: a sequence of graphs visualizes a linguistic phenomenon during successive periods of real time. The purpose of this approach is to transform frequency data into a format that facilitates the explorative analysis of change and the formation of research hypotheses. The studies in this paper are based on the ›Corpus of Historical American English‹ (Davies 2010), which contains authentic language use from the past two centuries. The case studies presented here focus on current changes in the domain of the English modal auxiliaries.
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