Speakers: Dr. Lucia Busso & Daniela Schneevogt
Abstract: the talk presents results of a 12 months funded project that explores the usefulness of applying Construction Grammar principles to cross-genre authorship analysis. We outline the three phases of the project to date: the initial protocol development, and accuracy and validity testing.
The protocol of analysis was developed using a sample of the 100 Idiolects Corpus (Heini, Kredens, Pezik, 2021). Initially, n-grams are extracted for 10 authors across three genres (emails, university essays, text messages), with two more genres (sociolinguistic interview and handwritten essay) and a new sample of 5 speakers added at a later stage for accuracy and validity testing.
Results suggest that linguistically motivated features such as constructions are able to capture idiolectal or stylistic traits across different genres.
