Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age
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| ISBN13: | 9781474430548 |
| ISBN10: | 1474430546 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 292 pages |
| Size: | 234x156 mm |
| Weight: | 449 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 42 Illustrations, color; 21 Tables, black & white |
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Drawing on the resources created by the Institute of Historical Dialectology at the University of Edinburgh this volume illustrates how traditional methods of historical dialectology can benefit from new methods of data-collection to test out theoretical and empirical claims.
Edinburgh (now the Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics), such as eLALME (the electronic version A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English), LAEME (A Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English) and LAOS (A Linguistic Atlas of Older Scots), this volume illustrates how traditional methods of historical dialectology can benefit from new methods of data-collection to test out theoretical and empirical claims. In showcasing the results that these resources can yield in the digital age, the book highlights novel methods for presenting, mapping and analysing the quantitative data of historical dialects, and sets the research agenda for future work in this field.
Bringing together a range of distinguished researchers, the book sets out the key corpus-building strategies for working with regional manuscript data at different levels of linguistic analysis including syntax, morphology, phonetics and phonology. The chapters also show the ways in which the geographical spread of phonological, morphological and lexical features of a language can be used to improve our assessment of the geographical provenance of historical texts.
The chapters in this volume provide a fascinating insight into the state of the art of historical dialectology, and, in the span of age and experience represented by the authors, ranging from Emeritus professors to doctoral candidates, reassure us that the future of this discipline and the legacy of Angus McIntosh are in safe hands... Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age thus gives the reader a greater understanding of the past and an intriguing glimpse into the future of historical dialectology. It will be of interest not only to historical linguists, but to those working with linguistic corpora of all kinds.
-perspective; The Dunfermline Corpus, 1573?1723, Klaus Hofmann; 4: Early Spelling Evidence for Scots L
-vocalisation: A Corpus
-based Approach, Benjamin Molineaux, Joanna Kopaczyk, Warren Maguire, Rhona Alcorn, Vasilis Karaiskos and Bettelou Los; Part 2: Segmental Histories; 5: Old and Middle English Spellings for OE hw
-, with Special Reference to the ?qu
-? Type: In Celebration of LAEME, (e)LALME, LAOS and CoNE, Margaret Laing and Roger Lass; 6: The Development of Old English ?: The Middle English Spelling Evidence, Gjertrud F. Stenbrenden; 7: The Development of Old English eo/?o and the Systematicity of Middle English Spelling, Merja Stenroos; 8: Examining the Evidence for Phonemic Affricates: Middle English /t??/, /d??/ or [t
-?], [d
-?]?, Donka Minkova; Part 3: Placing Features in Context; 9: The Predictability of {S} Abbreviation in Older Scots Manuscripts According to Stem final Littera, Daisy Smith; 10: An East Anglian Poem in a London Manuscript? The Date and Dialect of The Court of Love in Cambridge, Trinity College, MS R.3.19, Ad Putter; 11: ?He was a good hammer, was he?: Gender as Marker for South
-Western Dialects of English. A Corpus
-based Study from a Diachronic Perspective, Trinidad Guzmán
-González; Index
