Big data in contemporary linguistic research. In search of optimum methods for language chronologization

Abstract

The paper will concern the theoretical and practical problems of analysing the mass of linguistic data which has arisen in conjunction with the development of many fields of life. Moreover, the universe of texts is growing every day – both forwards and backwards. Forwards because every new article, book, blog, e-mail or text message expands the set of existing texts; and backwards because the same set is also expanded whenever a scan is made of another historical text. Our knowledge about past times is growing by leaps and bounds. We are therefore particularly interested in the analysis of historical texts that can be carried out in the second decade of the 21st century.