UID:
almafu_9959682665602883
Format:
1 online resource (XVIII, 378 p.)
ISBN:
3-11-068074-2
Series Statement:
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 346
Content:
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.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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List of contributors --
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Overview of linguistic annotation --
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Introduction: Celtic Studies and Corpus Linguistics --
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1 Treebanks for historical languages and scalability --
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2 Annotating Middle Welsh: POS tagging and chunk-parsing a corpus of native prose --
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3 Automatic morphological analysis and interlinking of historical Irish cognate verb forms --
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4 Text clustering and methods in the Book of Leinster --
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5 The demonstrative pronouns in Old and Middle Irish --
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6 Paradigmatic split and merger: The descriptive and diachronic problem of Old Irish Class B infixed pronouns --
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7 Nasalisation after inflected nominals in the Old Irish glosses: Evidence for variation and change --
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8 On the obligatory use of a nasalising relative clause after an adjectival antecedent in the Old Irish glosses --
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9 The “Cowgill particle”, preverbal ceta ‘first’, and prepositional cleft sentences in the Old Irish glosses --
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10 The functions and semantics of Middle Welsh X hun(an): A quantitative study --
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11 Prolegomena to the diachrony of Cornish syntax --
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References --
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Index
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Issued also in print.
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-11-068066-1
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110680744
