Methods in Latin computational linguistics / / by Barbara McGillivray.

• Author: McGillivray, Barbara.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden [Netherlands] : : Brill,, [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (246 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In Methods in Latin Computational Linguistics , Barbara McGillivray presents some of the most significant methodological foundations of the emerging field of Latin Computational Linguistics. The reader will find an overview of the computational resources and tools available for Latin and three corpus case studies covering morpho-syntactic and lexical-semantic aspects of Latin verb valency, as well as quantitative diachronic explorations of the argument realization of Latin prefixed verbs. The computational models and the multivariate data analysis techniques employed are explained with a detailed but accessible language. Barbara McGillivray convincingly shows the challenges and opportunities of combining computational methods and historical language data, and contributes to driving the technological change that is affecting Historical Linguistics and the Humanities.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Historical Languages, Corpora, and Computational Methods -- Computational Resources and Tools for Latin -- Verbs in Corpora, Lexicon ex machina -- The Agonies of Choice: Automatic Selectional Preferences -- A Closer Look at Automatic Selectional Preferences for Latin -- A Corpus-Based Foray into Latin Preverbs -- Statistical Background to the Investigation on Preverbs -- Latin Computational Linguistics -- Bibliography -- Index.