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