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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808465703321

Titolo

Diachronic treebanks for historical linguistics / Hanne Martine Eckhoff, Silvia Luraghi, and Marco Passarotti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]

ISBN

90-272-6045-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (162 pages) : illustrations

Altri autori (Persone)

PassarottiMarco

LuraghiSilvia <1958->

EckhoffHanne Martine

Disciplina

417.7

Soggetti

Historical linguistics

Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax - Data processing

Corpora (Linguistics) - Data processing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: The added value of diachronic treebanks for historical linguistics / Hanne Martine Eckhoff, Silvia Luraghi and Marco Passarotti -- Split coordination in English : why we need parsed corpora / Ann Taylor and Susan Pintzuk -- A corpus approach to the history of Russian po delimitatives / Hanne Martine Eckhoff -- Non-configurationality in diachrony : correlations in local and global networks of Ancient Greek and Latin / Edoardo Maria Ponti and Silvia Luraghi -- Text form and grammatical changes in Medieval French : a treebank-based diachronic study / Alexandra Simonenko, Benoît Crabbé and Sophie Prévost -- Spoken Latin behind written texts : formulaicity and salience in medieval documentary texts / Timo Korkiakangas.

Sommario/riassunto

"Over the last few decades, the widespread diffusion of digital technology has increased availability of primary textual sources, radically changing the everyday life of scholars in the humanities, who are now able to access, query and process a wealth of empirical evidence in ways not possible before. Also for ancient languages, corpora enhanced with increasingly complex layers of metalinguistic



information, such as part-of-speech tagging and syntactic annotation (called 'treebanks') are now available. In particular, diachronic treebanks, which provide data for a language across several historical stages of a given language, allow for a new approach to diachronic studies of syntactic phenomena where scholars previously had to content themselves with empirical work on a much smaller scale. This volume brings together a set of papers that report research on various diachronic matters supported by evidence from diachronic treebanks. The contents of the papers cover a wide range of languages, including English, French, Russian, Old Church Slavonic, Latin and Ancient Greek. Originally published as special issue of Diachronica 35:3 (2018)"--