Ebook: Morphosyntactic Variation in Medieval Celtic Languages: Corpus-Based Approaches
Author: Elliott Lash (editor), Fangzhe Qiu (editor), David Stifter (editor), National University Ireland Maynooth (editor)
- Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM], 346
- Year: 2020
- Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
- Language: English
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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