Pitfalls of the Ngram Viewer

by Stanford Carmack

Overview

Abstract: Google's Ngram Viewer often gives a distorted view of the popularity of cultural/religious phrases during the early 19th century and before. Other larger textual sources can provide a truer picture of relevant usage patterns of various content-rich phrases that occur in the Book of Mormon. Such an approach suggests that almost all of its phraseology fits comfortably within its syntactic framework, which is mostly early modern in character.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940162773665
Publisher:	Interpreter Foundation
Publication date:	03/26/2020
Series:	Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship , #36
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Stanford Carmack has a linguistics and a law degree from Stanford University as well as a doctorate in Hispanic Languages and Literature from the University of California, Santa Barbara, specializing in historical syntax and textual analysis. He currently researches Book of Mormon syntax and lexis as they relate to English usage and contributes to aspects of the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project carried out by Royal Skousen.