Introduction: Celtic Studies and Corpus Linguistics

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. List of contributors VII
4. Overview of linguistic annotation XI
5. Introduction: Celtic Studies and Corpus Linguistics 1
6. Part 1: Corpus tools for historical Celtic linguistics
7. 1 Treebanks for historical languages and scalability 15
8. 2 Annotating Middle Welsh: POS tagging and chunk-parsing a corpus of native prose 27
9. 3 Automatic morphological analysis and interlinking of historical Irish cognate verb forms 49
10. 4 Text clustering and methods in the Book of Leinster 85
11. Part 2: Morphosyntactic variation and change in medieval Celtic languages
12. 5 The demonstrative pronouns in Old and Middle Irish 115
13. 6 Paradigmatic split and merger: The descriptive and diachronic problem of Old Irish Class B infixed pronouns 143
14. 7 Nasalisation after inflected nominals in the Old Irish glosses: Evidence for variation and change 179
15. 8 On the obligatory use of a nasalising relative clause after an adjectival antecedent in the Old Irish glosses 195
16. 9 The “Cowgill particle”, preverbal ceta ‘first’, and prepositional cleft sentences in the Old Irish glosses 239
17. 10 The functions and semantics of Middle Welsh X hun(an): A quantitative study 269
18. 11 Prolegomena to the diachrony of Cornish syntax 313
19. References 339
20. Index 365