offers an in-depth study of the history of the mathematisation and automation of the sciences of language. In the wake of the first mathematisation of the 1930s, two waves followed: machine translation in the 1950s and the development of computational linguistics and natural language processing in the 1960S,  and the work with large computerised corpora in the 1990s  due to the unprecedented technological development of computers and software. Comparing the two trends, the present books reveals how the sciences of language gradually integrated the technologies of computing and software, resulting in the second wave mathematisation of the study of language, which may be called mathematisation-automation. The integration took on various shapes contingent upon cultural and linguistic traditions (USA, ex-USSR, Great Britain and France). By contrast, working with large corpora in the 1990s, though enabled by unprecedented development of computing and software, was primarily a continuation of such traditional approaches in the sciences of language sciences, as the study of spoken and written texts, lexicography, and statistical studies of vocabulary.weiterlesen