Morphosyntactic Variation in Medieval Celtic Languages

Corpus-Based Approaches

Elliott Lash, Fangzhe Qiu, David Stifter (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

XVIII, 378 Seiten

2020
de Gruyter Mouton (Verlag)
978-3-11-068066-9 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

Elliott Lash; Fangzhe Qiu; David Stifter, Maynooth University, Ireland.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 03.11.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 346
• Zusatzinfo: 12 b/w ill., 33 b/w tbl.
• Verlagsort: Berlin/Boston
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 155 x 230 mm
• Gewicht: 693 g
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Celtic linguistics • Corpus Linguistics • keltisch • Korpuslinguistik • language change • language variation • Syntax
• ISBN-10: 3-11-068066-1 / 3110680661
• ISBN-13: 978-3-11-068066-9 / 9783110680669
• Zustand: Neuware