On the Benefits of Enriching the Penn Parsed Corpora of Historical English to Study Change at the Syntax-Semantics Interface: Introducing the Roots & Results (RoRe) Database
By: Tara Struik, Lena Kaltenbach and Susanne Lang
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.546 | Journal eISSN: 2059-481X
Language: English
Page range: 105 - 105
Submitted on: Apr 8, 2026
Accepted on: May 27, 2026
Published on: Aug 5, 2026
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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