30.2675, Books: Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age: Alcorn, Kopaczyk, Los, Molineaux (eds.)

[The LINGUIST List]

LINGUIST List: Vol-30-2675. Mon Jul 08 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.2675, Books: Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age: Alcorn, Kopaczyk, Los, Molineaux (eds.)

Moderator: Malgorzata E. Cavar (linguist at linguistlist.org)
Student Moderator: Jeremy Coburn
Managing Editor: Becca Morris
Team: Helen Aristar-Dry, Everett Green, Sarah Robinson, Peace Han, Nils Hjortnaes, Yiwen Zhang, Julian Dietrich
Jobs: jobs at linguistlist.org | Conferences: callconf at linguistlist.org | Pubs: pubs at linguistlist.org

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
           https://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

Editor for this issue: Jeremy Coburn <jecoburn at linguistlist.org>
================================================================


Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 15:33:39
From: Anna Glazier [Anna.Glazier at eup.ed.ac.uk]
Subject: Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age: Alcorn, Kopaczyk, Los, Molineaux (eds.)

 


Title: Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age 
Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
	   www.edinburghuniversitypress.com
	

Book URL: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-historical-dialectology-in-the-digital-age.html 


Editor: Rhona Alcorn
Editor: Joanna Kopaczyk
Editor: Bettelou Los
Editor: Benjamin Molineaux

Electronic: ISBN:  9781474430562 Pages: 292 Price: U.K. £ 80
Electronic: ISBN:  9781474430555 Pages: 292 Price: U.K. £ 80
Hardback: ISBN:  9781474430531 Pages: 292 Price: U.K. £ 80


Abstract:

A survey of applications of digital methods and tools to explore the
linguistic features of regional varieties in historical texts

Drawing on the resources created by the Institute of Historical Dialectology
at the University of Edinburgh (now the Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical
Linguistics), such as eLALME (the electronic version A Linguistic Atlas of
Late Medieval English), LAEME (A Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English) and
LAOS (A Linguistic Atlas of Older Scots), this volume illustrates how
traditional methods of historical dialectology can benefit from new methods of
data-collection to test out theoretical and empirical claims. In showcasing
the results that these resources can yield in the digital age, the book
highlights novel methods for presenting, mapping and analysing the
quantitative data of historical dialects, and sets the research agenda for
future work in this field.

Bringing together a range of distinguished researchers, the book sets out the
key corpus-building strategies for working with regional manuscript data at
different levels of linguistic analysis including syntax, morphology,
phonetics and phonology. The chapters also show the ways in which the
geographical spread of phonological, morphological and lexical features of a
language can be used to improve our assessment of the geographical provenance
of historical texts. 
This print formats of this book are available in North America from our
distribution partner, Oxford University Press.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

See this book announcement on our website: 
http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=136676




------------------------------------------------------------------------------

***************************    LINGUIST List Support    ***************************
 The 2019 Fund Drive is under way! Please visit https://funddrive.linguistlist.org
  to find out how to donate and check how your university, country or discipline
     ranks in the fund drive challenges. Or go directly to the donation site:
               https://iufoundation.fundly.com/the-linguist-list-2019

                        Let's make this a short fund drive!
                Please feel free to share the link to our campaign:
                    https://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/
 


----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-30-2675	
----------------------------------------------------------