The Database of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources 400-1200: A Study in Computer-Assisted Lexicography - Hardcover

Kieran Devine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0901714666 ISBN 13: 9780901714664

Publisher: Royal Irish Academy, 1987

Synopsis

A descriptive log of the working methods and computer applications involved in the preparation of the dictionary, this book studies the use of computers in lexicography and the facilities available for indexing, lemmatizing and retrieving text.

About this title

About the Author:

Dr Anthony Harvey is Editor of the Royal Irish Academy's Dictionary of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources (DMLCS) and Project Leader of the St Patrick's Confessio Hyperstack activity (www.confessio.ie). He has been part of the DMLCS project since 1985 and Editor since 1990. He holds a PhD in early medieval Irish and British linguistics and literacy from Cambridge University's Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, where he had previously gained his MA, and has lectured and published widely on these subjects as well as on matters of Latin philology. He teaches conversational Welsh informally in Dublin, and has served as Chairman of the Classical Association of Ireland. He is currently on the advisory boards of several scholarly journals and dictionary projects at home and abroad. Research Interests:- Application of computers to dictionary-making Medieval Latin and Celtic literacy and linguistics Modern Celtic languages

About this edition

• Publisher: Royal Irish Academy
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0901714666
• ISBN 13: 9780901714664
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 101