It is little wonder that corpus analyses have been, are and in all likelihood will for quite some time remain the staple method in linguistics: They are compatible with different theoretical approaches, they appeal to researchers invested in historical and present-day languages alike, they benefit from the constant increase in electronic databases and the digitalization of older texts, they are additionally boosted by advances in technology and software and the increasingly widespread R-literacy and programming skills among young-career as well as advanced linguists, and they draw inspiration from the knowhow of vibrant adjacent disciplines such as computational linguistics as well as commercial services on the Internet. Thus, the last one or two decades have seen a “paradigm shift” (Gries 2013: 4) towards ever more sophisticated quantitative techniques.
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