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9781474430531

Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age

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  • ISBN13:

    9781474430531

  • ISBN10:

    1474430538

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2019-05-01
  • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

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Author Biography


Rhona Alcorn is a Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and CEO of Scots Language Dictionaries Ltd. She is also Deputy Director of the Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics. Bettelou Los is Forbes Professor of English Language at the University of Edinburgh. Joanna Kopaczyk is Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Glasgow. Benjamin Molineaux is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh.

Table of Contents


Prelims: Editors; Contributors; List of figures and tables; Acknowledgements; Preface
Chapter 1: Historical dialectology then and now
Rhona Alcorn, Joanna Kopaczyk, Bettelou Los & Benjamin Molineaux (Edinburgh)
Part One: Creating and mining digital resources ?
Chapter 2: A Parsed Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English
Robert Truswell, Rhona Alcorn, James Donaldson (Edinburgh) and Joel Wallenberg (Newcastle)
Chapter 3: Approaching Transition Scots from a micro-perspective; The Dumfermline Corpus, 1573-1723
Klaus Hofmann (Vienna)
Chapter 4: Early spelling evidence for Scots L-vocalisation: a corpus-based approach
Benjamin Molineaux, Joanna Kopaczyk, Warren Maguire, Rhona Alcorn, Bettelou Los and Vasilis Karaiskos (Edinburgh)
Part Two: Segmental histories
Chapter 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 (Edinburgh)
Chapter 6: The development of Old English ?: The Middle English spelling evidence
Gjertrud Stenbrenden (Oslo)
Chapter 7: The development of Old English eo/?o and the systematicity of Middle English spelling
Merja Stenroos (Stavanger)
Chapter 8: Examining the evidence for phonemic affricates: Middle English /t??/, /d??/ or [t-?], [d-?]?
Donka Minkova (UCLA)
Part Three: Placing features in context
Chapter 9: The predictability of {S} abbreviation in Older Scots manuscripts according to stem-final littera
Daisy Smith (Edinburgh)
Chapter 10: The date and dialect of The Court of Love
Ad Putter (Bristol)
Chapter 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 (León)
Index

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