Lash, Elliott and Qiu, Fangzhe and Stifter, David
(2020)
Morphosyntactic Variation in Medieval Celtic Languages.
Corpus-Based Approaches.
De Gruyter Mouton.
ISBN 978-3-11-068074-4
Abstract
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.
Item Type: |
Book
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Keywords: |
Language Change; Language Variation; Celtic Linguistics; Corpus Linguistics; |
Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Arts & Humanities > School of Celtic Studies > Early Irish (Sean Ghaeilge) |
Item ID: |
13577 |
Depositing User: |
Prof. David Stifter
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Date Deposited: |
16 Nov 2020 11:57 |
Publisher: |
De Gruyter Mouton |
Refereed: |
Yes |
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