Abstract
The corpus-based analysis of modern English tends to focus on language which has been written or spoken at a particular point in time, and a corpus is conventionally set up as synchronic entity. A synchronic study is often entirely appropriate, but language is a changing phenomenon, and linguists are also interested in that dimension: curious to trace an earlier language feature through to the present, or a current feature back to its source, and in studying recent changes in language use.Within this context, I shall discuss new developments in three areas of research activity: firstly, the setting up of a means of tracing morphological, lexical and semantic changes in Modern English text across time; secondly, the use of the web as a linguistic resource; and thirdly, the coordination of methodologies and resources in modern and historical corpus linguistics.
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