31.3324, Books: Morphosyntactic Variation in Medieval Celtic Languages: Lash, Qiu, Stifter (eds.)

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Subject: 31.3324, Books: Morphosyntactic Variation in Medieval Celtic Languages: Lash, Qiu, Stifter (eds.)

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Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2020 22:47:31
From: Asja Kusnezowa [Asja.Kusnezowa at degruyter.com]
Subject: Morphosyntactic Variation in Medieval Celtic Languages: Lash, Qiu, Stifter (eds.)

 


Title: Morphosyntactic Variation in Medieval Celtic Languages 
Subtitle: Corpus-Based Approaches 
Series Title: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://bit.ly/3kxWz1u 


Editor: Elliott Lash
Editor: Fangzhe Qiu
Editor: David Stifter

Hardback: ISBN:  9783110680669 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 114.99


Abstract:

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Syntax
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Language Family(ies): Celtic


Written In: English  (eng)

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