04142nam 22004935 450 99636504170331620210804190706.03-11-068074-210.1515/9783110680744(CKB)4100000011559115(DE-B1597)537459(DE-B1597)9783110680744(OCoLC)1202623860(EXLCZ)99410000001155911520201028h20202020 fg engur||#||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMorphosyntactic Variation in Medieval Celtic Languages Corpus-Based Approaches /Elliott Lash, Fangzhe Qiu, David StifterBerlin ;Boston :De Gruyter Mouton,[2020]©20201 online resource (XVIII, 378 p.)Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ;3463-11-068066-1 Frontmatter --Contents --List of contributors --Overview of linguistic annotation --Introduction: Celtic Studies and Corpus Linguistics --1 Treebanks for historical languages and scalability --2 Annotating Middle Welsh: POS tagging and chunk-parsing a corpus of native prose --3 Automatic morphological analysis and interlinking of historical Irish cognate verb forms --4 Text clustering and methods in the Book of Leinster --5 The demonstrative pronouns in Old and Middle Irish --6 Paradigmatic split and merger: The descriptive and diachronic problem of Old Irish Class B infixed pronouns --7 Nasalisation after inflected nominals in the Old Irish glosses: Evidence for variation and change --8 On the obligatory use of a nasalising relative clause after an adjectival antecedent in the Old Irish glosses --9 The “Cowgill particle”, preverbal ceta ‘first’, and prepositional cleft sentences in the Old Irish glosses --10 The functions and semantics of Middle Welsh X hun(an): A quantitative study --11 Prolegomena to the diachrony of Cornish syntax --References --IndexThis book showcases the state of the art in the corpus-based linguistics of medieval Celtic languages. Its chapters detail theoretical advances in analysing variation/change in the Celtic languages and computational tools necessary to process/analyse the data. Many contributions situate the Celtic material in the broader field of corpus-based diachronic linguistics. The application of computational methods to Celtic languages is in its infancy and this book is a first in medieval Celtic Studies, which has mainly concentrated on philological endeavours such as editorial and literary work. The Celtic languages represent a new frontier in the development of NLP tools because they pose special challenges, like complicated inflectional morphology with non-straightforward mappings between lemmata and attested forms, irregular orthography, and consonant mutations. With so much data available in non-electronic form and ongoing efforts to convert these data to computer-readable format, there is much room for the developing/testing of new tools. This books provides an overview of this process at a crucial time in the development of the field and aims to the data accessible to computational linguists with an interest in diachronic change.LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / GeneralbisacshCeltic Linguistics.Corpus Linguistics.Language Change.Language Variation.LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.Lash Elliottedthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtQiu Fangzheedthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtStifter Davidedthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtNational University Ireland Maynoothfndhttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fndDE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK996365041703316Morphosyntactic Variation in Medieval Celtic Languages2088700UNISA