Morphosyntactic Variation in Medieval Celtic Languages: Corpus-Based Approaches

book: Morphosyntactic Variation in Medieval Celtic Languages

Open Access Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2020

Morphosyntactic Variation in Medieval Celtic Languages

Corpus-Based Approaches

Edited by: Elliott Lash , Fangzhe Qiu and David Stifter
Funded by: National University Ireland Maynooth

Volume 346 in the series Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110680744

Overview
Contents

About this book

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.

A first for Celtic studies given the concentration on electronic corpora instead of traditional philological approach
Makes a range of Celtic data available to computational linguists interested in change/variation

Author / Editor information

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

Topics

Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	I
Contents Open Access Download PDF	V
List of contributors Open Access Download PDF	VII
Overview of linguistic annotation Open Access Download PDF	XI
Introduction: Celtic Studies and Corpus Linguistics Elliott Lash, Fangzhe Qiu and David Stifter Open Access Download PDF	1
Part 1: Corpus tools for historical Celtic linguistics
1 Treebanks for historical languages and scalability Marius L. Jøhndal Open Access Download PDF	15
2 Annotating Middle Welsh: POS tagging and chunk-parsing a corpus of native prose Marieke Meelen Open Access Download PDF	27
3 Automatic morphological analysis and interlinking of historical Irish cognate verb forms Theodorus Fransen Open Access Download PDF	49
4 Text clustering and methods in the Book of Leinster Christopher Guy Yocum Open Access Download PDF	85
Part 2: Morphosyntactic variation and change in medieval Celtic languages
5 The demonstrative pronouns in Old and Middle Irish Liam Breatnach Open Access Download PDF	115
6 Paradigmatic split and merger: The descriptive and diachronic problem of Old Irish Class B infixed pronouns Carlos García-Castillero Open Access Download PDF	143
7 Nasalisation after inflected nominals in the Old Irish glosses: Evidence for variation and change Elisa Roma Open Access Download PDF	179
8 On the obligatory use of a nasalising relative clause after an adjectival antecedent in the Old Irish glosses Jürgen Uhlich Open Access Download PDF	195
9 The “Cowgill particle”, preverbal ceta ‘first’, and prepositional cleft sentences in the Old Irish glosses Aaron Griffith Open Access Download PDF	239
10 The functions and semantics of Middle Welsh X hun(an): A quantitative study Britta Irslinger Open Access Download PDF	269
11 Prolegomena to the diachrony of Cornish syntax Joseph F. Eska and Benjamin Bruch Open Access Download PDF	313
References Open Access Download PDF	339
Index Open Access Download PDF	365

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Scholars and Students interested in Celtic Studies, Corpus and Historical Linguistics, Medieval Studies, Computer Science
Pages
- Front matter: 18
- Main content: 378
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 12
- Tables: 33
Keywords: Language Change; Language Variation; Celtic Linguistics; Corpus Linguistics

eBook

Published: October 12, 2020
ISBN: 9783110680744

Hardcover

Published: October 12, 2020
ISBN: 9783110680669