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Historical dialectology in the digital age / edited by Rhona Alcorn, Joanna Kopaczyk, Bettelou Los and Benjamin Molineaux.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alcorn, Rhona, Author.
- Series:
- Edinburgh scholarship online.
- Edinburgh scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Dialectology.
- English language.
- English language--Dialects--Scotland.
- Scots language.
- Historical linguistics.
- Computational linguistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (293 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- Drawing on the resources created by the Institute of Historical Dialectology at the University of Edinburgh, this volume illustrates how traditional methods of historical dialectology can benefit from new methods of data-collection to test out theoretical and empirical claims.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Editors
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Historical Dialectology and the Angus McIntosh Legacy
- Part 1 Creating and Mining Digital Resources
- 2 A Parsed Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English
- 3 Approaching Transition Scots from a Micro-perspective: The Dunfermline Corpus, 1573–1723
- 4 Early Spelling Evidence for Scots L-vocalisation: A Corpus-based Approach
- Part II Segmental Histories
- 5 Old and Middle English Spellings for OE hw-, with Special Reference to the ‘qu-’ Type: In Celebration of LAEME, (e)LALME, LAOS and CoNE: In Memoriam Angus McIntosh
- 6 The Development of Old English ǣ: Middle English Spelling Evidence
- 7 The Development of Old English eo/ēo and the Systematicity of Middle English Spelling
- 8 Examining the Evidence for Phonemic Affricates: Middle English /t͡ʃ/, /d͡ʒ/ or [t-ʃ ], [d-ʒ]?
- Part III Placing Features in Context
- 9 The Predictability of {S} Abbreviation in Older Scots Manuscripts According to Stem-final Littera
- 10 An East Anglian Poem in a London Manuscript? The Date and Dialect of The Court of Love in Cambridge, Trinity College, MS R.3.19
- 11 ‘He was a good hammer, was he’: Gender as Marker for South-Western Dialects of English. A Corpus-based Study from a Diachronic Perspective
- Index
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2019.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4744-6016-X
- 1-4744-3056-2
- 1-4744-3055-4
- OCLC:
- 1306540768
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