Lexical changes in Arabic newspaper writings: A corpus-based comparison of 2018 and 1950 Arabic newspapers
Brierley, Sarah Alajlan; Claire . 2020
Studying language change is one of the most challenging topics in the field of corpus linguistics. The challenge stems from two facts. First, there is a shortage of ancient texts in a machine-readable format, and second there is the difficulty of identifying linguistic changes electronically across two or more corpora. This paper attempts to shed light on lexical changes that have happened in Arabic newspaper writings by comparing two sub-corpora that have been built specifically for this study (Alajlan, 2019). It is part of an ongoing PhD study that uses automatic analysis followed by manual investigation of the lexicon and the syntax of Arabic newspaper writings.
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