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5. CORPORA AND METHODOLOGY<br />

Section 5.1.2 below). These words were extracted manually, and so no information about<br />

subdivisions and line numbers is retained. Therefore, in examples from both texts, only the<br />

subperiod, year of publication, name of the author and the title will be provided between<br />

brackets at the end of the example. In the case of the EMEMT texts, information about the<br />

category of texts will also be given, that is, “remedy” for remedy books, “surgery” for<br />

surgical treatises and “academic” for academic treatises. Following this pattern, example<br />

(101) above becomes (102):<br />

(102) The same being tolde mee, me thought it was a strange alternation:<br />

howebeit, I did take their good speeches very kindly, and so would<br />

haue done still, if it had pleased them to continue in the same good<br />

opinion of me, or to haue bin silent. (E2 1602 Clowes Treatise for<br />

the artificiall cure of struma)<br />

5.1.2. Early Modern English Medical Texts<br />

EMEMT (Taavitsainen et al. 2010) is a register-specific corpus which was chosen here<br />

because it facilitates the analysis of differences in the use and frequency of action<br />

nominalizations in the various categories of medical writing. It was compiled between<br />

2000 and 2010 as a component of the three-part Corpus of Early English Medical Writing<br />

1375-1800. It contains two million words, and provides a comprehensive view of EModE<br />

medical writing, containing a wide range of texts (c. 450), from the most popular<br />

categories to the most learned and theoretically-oriented medical writings.<br />

Texts in EMEMT are not divided into time periods, leaving to researchers the<br />

choice of the periodization which best suits their purposes. In the present study, the<br />

periodization derives from that used in PPCEME, since the data from these two corpora<br />

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