Nowadays, linguists do not question the existence of synchronic variation, and the dichotomy between synchrony and diachrony. They recognize that synchrony can

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Based on a corpus of Old Spanish texts, the discourse traditions of counselling are analysed within the framework of diachronic corpus pragmatics and dialogue a

Covering the major approaches to the use of corpus data, this work gathers together influential readings from leading names in the discipline, including Biber,