Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age / / Joanna Kopaczyk, Benjamin Molineaux, Rhona Alcorn, Bettelou Los.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Alcorn, Rhona,; Kopaczyk, Joanna,; Los, Bettelou,
• MitwirkendeR: Alcorn, Rhona,; Donaldson, James,; Guzmán-González, Trinidad,; Hofmann, Klaus,; Karaiskos, Vasilis,; Kopaczyk, Joanna,; Laing, Margaret,; Lass, Roger,; Los, Bettelou,; Maguire, Warren,; Minkova, Donka,; Molineaux, Benjamin,; Putter, Ad,; Smith, Daisy,; Stenbrenden, Gjertrud F.,; Stenroos, Merja,; Truswell, Robert,; Wallenberg, Joel,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (292 p.) :; 42 colour illustrations 21 B/W tables

A survey of applications of digital methods and tools to explore the linguistic features of regional varieties in historical textsDrawing 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/phonologyShows how traditional methods of Historical Dialectology can benefit from new methods of data-collection to test out theoretical and empirical claimsHighlights opportunities and pitfalls for analysing the relation between sound systems and spellings

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Editors -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Historical Dialectology and the Angus McIntosh Legacy -- Part 1 Creating and Mining Digital Resources -- 2 A Parsed Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English -- 3 Approaching Transition Scots from a Micro-perspective: The Dunfermline Corpus, 1573–1723 -- 4 Early Spelling Evidence for Scots L-vocalisation: A Corpus-based Approach -- 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 -- 6 The Development of Old English ǣ: Middle English Spelling Evidence -- 7 The Development of Old English eo/ēo and the Systematicity of Middle English Spelling -- 8 Examining the Evidence for Phonemic Affricates: Middle English /t͡ʃ/, /d͡ʒ/ or [t-ʃ ], [d-ʒ]? -- Part III Placing Features in Context -- 9 The Predictability of {S} Abbreviation in Older Scots Manuscripts According to Stem-final Littera -- 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 -- 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 -- Index