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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno