CoDIAC – A diachronic corpus for studying Italian connectives: Methodology, design, and a research application on invece

This article introduces CoDIAC (Corpus Diacronico dell’Italiano per l’Analisi dei Connettivi), a diachronic corpus for studying Italian connectives. Spanning the 13th to the 20th century, it comprises 108 texts totalling ~3.5 million words and features comparable word counts across centuries, genres, and individual texts. A case study on the adversative connective invece ‘instead’ and its subordinating variant invece di|che ‘instead of’ demonstrates its practical application