Learning objectives
Analyse a text from an earlier period at every level — orthography, lexis, semantics, grammar, syntax and discourse — and date it from the evidence you have identified
Read quantitative data on language change, including frequency graphs and corpus tables, and describe the trend precisely before interpreting it
Link a pattern in the quantitative data to a specific feature in the historical text so that the two sources of evidence support one another
Explain the limitations of corpus evidence, including sample size, the range of sources represented and the difference between written and spoken records
Write a timed response that integrates text analysis, data interpretation and theory into one argument rather than three separate sections
Read the two data sources Paper 3 Question 1 supplies beside the prose text — an n-gram graph and a word table of corpus data such as a collocate list or a synonym list — and write about each precisely, naming dates, crossover points, semantic fields and competing forms
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