Morphosyntactic Variation in Medieval Celtic Languages : Corpus-based Approaches
Lash, Elliott (EDT); Qiu, Fangzhe (EDT); Stifter, David (EDT)
ISBN 10: 3110680661 ISBN 13: 9783110680669
Published by De Gruyter Mouton, 2020
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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.
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Title: Morphosyntactic Variation in Medieval Celtic...
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Publication Date: 2020
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New