Full Description
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.
Contents
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Editors
Notes on Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Historical Dialectology and the Angus McIntosh Legacy
Rhona Alcorn, Joanna Kopaczyk, Bettelou Los and Benjamin Molineaux
Part 1 Creating and Mining Digital Resources
2 A Parsed Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English
Robert Truswell, Rhona Alcorn, James Donaldson and Joel Wallenberg
3 Approaching Transition Scots from a Micro-perspective; The Dunfermline Corpus, 1573-1723
Klaus Hofmann
4 Early Spelling Evidence for Scots L-vocalisation: A Corpus-based Approach
Benjamin Molineaux, Joanna Kopaczyk, Warren Maguire, Rhona Alcorn, Vasilis Karaiskos and Bettelou Los
Part 2 Segmental Histories
5 Old and Middle English Spellings for OE hw-, with Special Reference to the 'qu-' Type: In Celebration of LAEME, (e)LALME, LAOS and CoNE
Margaret Laing and Roger Lass
6 The Development of Old English ǣ: The Middle English Spelling Evidence
Gjertrud F. Stenbrenden
7 The Development of Old English eo/ēo and the Systematicity of Middle English Spelling
Merja Stenroos
8 Examining the Evidence for Phonemic Affricates: Middle English /t͡ʃ/, /d͡ʒ/ or [t-ʃ], [d-ʒ]?
Donka Minkova
Part 3 Placing Features in Context
9 The Predictability of {S} Abbreviation in Older Scots Manuscripts According to Stem-final Littera
Daisy Smith
10 An East Anglian Poem in a London Manuscript? The Date and Dialect of The Court of Love in Cambridge, Trinity College, MS R.3.19
Ad Putter
11 'He was a good hammer, was he': Gender as Marker for South-Western Dialects of English. A Corpus-based Study from a Diachronic Perspective
Trinidad Guzmán-González
Index
