Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age

Rhona Alcorn; Joanna Kopaczyk; Bettelou Los; Benjamin Molineaux

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2019

Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age

Rhona Alcorn , Joanna Kopaczyk , Bettelou Los and Benjamin Molineaux

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474430555

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About this book

A survey of applications of digital methods and tools to explore the linguistic features of regional varieties in historical texts

Drawing on the resources created by the Institute of Historical Dialectology at the University of 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.

Lays out key corpus-building strategies for working with regional data at different levels of linguistic analysis: syntax, lexicon, morphology, and phonetics/phonology
Shows how traditional methods of Historical Dialectology can benefit from new methods of data-collection to test out theoretical and empirical claims
Highlights opportunities and pitfalls for analysing the relation between sound systems and spellings

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Figures and Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Editors Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xvi
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xvii
1 Historical Dialectology and the Angus McIntosh Legacy Rhona Alcorn, Joanna Kopaczyk, Bettelou Los and Benjamin Molineaux Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part 1 Creating and Mining Digital Resources
2 A Parsed Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English Robert Truswell, Rhona Alcorn, James Donaldson and Joel Wallenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
3 Approaching Transition Scots from a Micro-perspective: The Dunfermline Corpus, 1573–1723 Klaus Hofmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
Part II 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: In Memoriam Angus McIntosh Margaret Laing, Roger Lass and Roger Lass Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
6 The Development of Old English ǣ: Middle English Spelling Evidence Gjertrud F. Stenbrenden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
7 The Development of Old English eo/ēo and the Systematicity of Middle English Spelling Merja Stenroos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
8 Examining the Evidence for Phonemic Affricates: Middle English /t͡ʃ/, /d͡ʒ/ or [t-ʃ ], [d-ʒ]? Donka Minkova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
Part III Placing Features in Context
9 The Predictability of {S} Abbreviation in Older Scots Manuscripts According to Stem-final Littera Daisy Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	212
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	244
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	266

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 292
Illustrations
- Other: 42 colour illustrations 21 B/W tables
Keywords: Language & Linguistics

eBook

Published: March 24, 2022
ISBN: 9781474430555