Morphosyntactic Variation in Medieval Celtic Languages : Corpus-Based Approaches /

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 m...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Other Authors: Lash, Elliott (Editor), Qiu, Fangzhe (Editor), Stifter, David (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2020]
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 346
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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