Morphosyntactic Variation in Medieval Celtic Languages: Corpus-based Approaches

Lash, Elliott (Editor)/ Qiu, Fangzhe (Editor)/ Stifter, David (Editor)

ISBN 10: 3110680661 / ISBN 13: 9783110680669

Published by Mouton De Gruyter, 2020

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350 pages. 9.05x6.10x9.21 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Morphosyntactic Variation in Medieval Celtic Languages: Corpus-based Approaches
• Publisher: Mouton De Gruyter
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3110680661
• ISBN 13: 9783110680669
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.67 kilograms

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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