Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age

✍ Scribed by Rhona Alcorn (editor), Joanna Kopaczyk (editor), Bettelou Los (editor), Benjamin Molineaux (editor)

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 293
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Editors
Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Historical Dialectology and the Angus McIntosh Legacy
Part 1 Creating and Mining Digital Resources
2 A Parsed Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English
3 Approaching Transition Scots from a Micro-perspective: The Dunfermline Corpus, 1573-1723
4 Early Spelling Evidence for Scots L-vocalisation: A Corpus-based Approach
Part II Segmental Histories
5 Old and Middle English Spellings for OE hw-, with Special Reference to the 'qu-' Type: In Celebratration of LAME, (e)LALME, LAOS and CoNE: In Memoriam Angus McIntosh
6 The Development of Old English ǣ: Middle English Spelling Evidence
7 The Development of Old English eo/ēo and the Systematicity of Middle English Spelling
8 Examining the Evidence for Phonemic Affricates: Middle English /t͡ʃ/, /d͡ʒ/ or [t-ʃ], [d-ʒ]?
Part III Placing Features in Context
9 The Predictability of {S} Abbreviation in Older Scots Manuscripts According to Stem-final Littera
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
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
Index