Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age

ISBN-13: 9781474430531 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 292 str.

Rhona Alcorn; Bettelou Los; Joanna Kopacyzk

Opis

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.

Spis treści

List of Figures and Tables; Notes on Editors; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1: Historical Dialectology and the Angus McIntosh Legacy, Rhona Alcorn, Joanna Kopaczyk, Bettelou Los and Benjamin Molineaux; Part 1: Creating and Mining Digital Resources; 2: A Parsed Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English, Robert Truswell, Rhona Alcorn, James Donaldson and Joel Wallenberg; 3: Approaching Transition Scots from a Micro-perspective; The Dunfermline Corpus, 1573–1723, Klaus Hofmann; 4: Early Spelling Evidence for Scots L-vocalisation: A Corpus-based Approach, Benjamin Molineaux, Joanna Kopaczyk, Warren Maguire, Rhona Alcorn, Vasilis Karaiskos and Bettelou Los; Part 2: 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, Margaret Laing and Roger Lass; 6: The Development of Old English ?: The Middle English Spelling Evidence, Gjertrud F. Stenbrenden; 7: The Development of Old English eo/?o and the Systematicity of Middle English Spelling, Merja Stenroos; 8: Examining the Evidence for Phonemic Affricates: Middle English /t??/, /d??/ or [t-?], [d-?]?, Donka Minkova; Part 3: Placing Features in Context; 9: The Predictability of Abbreviation in Older Scots Manuscripts According to Stem final Littera, Daisy Smith; 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, Ad Putter; 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, Trinidad Guzmán-González; Index