Morphosyntactic Variation in Medieval Celtic Languages

Corpus-Based Approaches
Herausgegeben:Lash, Elliott; Qiu, Fangzhe; Stifter, David

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 346
• Verlag: De Gruyter / National University Ireland Maynooth
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 704g
• ISBN-13: 9783110680669
• ISBN-10: 3110680661
• Artikelnr.: 59576165

Autorenporträt

Elliott Lash; Fangzhe Qiu; David Stifter, Maynooth University, Ireland.