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Titolo: | Morphosyntactic Variation in Medieval Celtic Languages : Corpus-Based Approaches / / Elliott Lash, Fangzhe Qiu, David Stifter |
Pubblicazione: | Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2020] |
©2020 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (XVIII, 378 p.) |
Soggetto topico: | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General |
Soggetto non controllato: | Celtic Linguistics |
Corpus Linguistics | |
Language Change | |
Language Variation | |
Persona (resp. second.): | LashElliott |
QiuFangzhe | |
StifterDavid | |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 -- Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | This 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Morphosyntactic Variation in Medieval Celtic Languages |
ISBN: | 3-11-068074-2 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 996365041703316 |
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