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====== HeidelGram: Network analysis of grammarians' references in 19th-century British grammars – a corpus-based pilot study ======
[[http://arsgrammatica.ids-mannheim.de|ars grammatica 2017 - IDS Mannheim]]
==== Beatrix Busse, Kirsten Gather, Ingo Kleiber ====

==== Abstract ====
This pilot study brings together historical corpus linguistics and applied network theory. It
investigates a network of grammarians' references in a corpus of representative 19thcentury
British grammar books, examining and categorising connections between
grammarians. Based on this network, we scrutinise established assumptions on the history
of grammar writing, showing that particularly the turn from prescriptive to descriptive
grammar writing is a discursively much more complex process than usually acknowledged,
requiring a reassessment of the common notions of 'prescriptive' and 'descriptive'
grammars and their alleged representative authorities.

==== Presentation Material ====
[[http://heidelgram.de/download/ag2017-heidelgram.pdf|Poster (.pdf)]] \\