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Comparing Lexicons Diachronically in Italian Literary Corpora

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  • Luca Pavan

    (Institute of Foreign Languages, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania; Language Studies Centre, Faculty of Creative Industries, Vilnius Tech, Vilnius, Lithuania; Department of Foreign Languages, Literary and Translation Studies, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania)

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The goal of the article is to provide a comparison between several words from Florentine vernacular language and modern Italian language, using software written by the author. This paper focuses on two corpora: the first one includes a selection of Florentine vernacular literature and the second one a group of literary books written in a modern Italian language from the end of XIX Century up until the present. The article demonstrates the use of some features of the software to compare the two corpora, ranking the lexicographic entries using different strategies. It is possible to analyse the lexicon taking into consideration different types of sorting, using only three parameters: the word frequency, the percentage of frequency according to the number of words in the corpus, and the percentage of texts where the word is found in the corpus. From these parameters a fourth parameter also arises the level of persistence of words in each corpus. The software allows observing the differences in the use of lexicon in various periods of history, comparing the Florentine vernacular language, which was used in the Italian peninsula till the beginning of XIX Century, to the modern Italian language.

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  • Luca Pavan, 2021. "Comparing Lexicons Diachronically in Italian Literary Corpora," International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation, Al-Kindi Center for Research and Development, vol. 4(8), pages 85-89, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:alk:ijllt0:v:4:y:2021:i:8:id:2008
    DOI: 10.32996/ijllt.2021.4.8.13
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