Abstract The aim of this study is to further contribute the ongoing debate regarding nature “morphosyntactic lifespan change,” defined here as observable shifts in grammatical choices individuals make between competing morphosyntactic structures. Through a quantitative case competition two types ing- nominals seventeenth-century English, which we factor contexts variant structures can be used, ...

The paper presents the third edition of the MULTEXT-East language resources, a multilingual dataset for language engineering research and development. This standardised and linked set of resources covers a large number of mainly Central and Eastern European languages and includes the EAGLES-based morphosyntactic specifications, defining the features that describe word-level syntactic annotation...