Chris Sapp and Rex Sprouse are awarded $450,000 National Science Foundation grant to study nearly 1,000-year evolution of German language. They are the recipients of a $457,000 National Science Foundation grant to lead a groundbreaking project that will make it easier to study how the German language has evolved over the past 900 years.
Christopher Sapp, Professor of Germanic Linguistics and Philology, and Rex Sprouse, Professor of Second Language Studies, are leading the project, the Indiana Parsed Corpus of High German, which will create a 1.4-million-word collection of historical German texts, dating from 1050 to 1950, that can be analyzed for changes in grammar and word order over time.
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