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Title Diachronic treebanks for historical linguistics / edited by Hanne Martine Eckhoff, Silvia Luraghi, Marco Passarotti
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (154 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Series Benjamins current topics ; volume 113
Benjamins current topics ; v. 113.
Contents Introduction: The added value of diachronic treebanks for historical linguistics / Hanne Martine Eckhoff, Silvia Luraghi and Marco Passarotti -- Split coordination in English : why we need parsed corpora / Ann Taylor and Susan Pintzuk -- A corpus approach to the history of Russian po delimitatives / Hanne Martine Eckhoff -- Non-configurationality in diachrony : correlations in local and global networks of Ancient Greek and Latin / Edoardo Maria Ponti and Silvia Luraghi -- Text form and grammatical changes in Medieval French : a treebank-based diachronic study / Alexandra Simonenko, Benoît Crabbé and Sophie Prévost -- Spoken Latin behind written texts : formulaicity and salience in medieval documentary texts / Timo Korkiakangas
Summary "Over the last few decades, the widespread diffusion of digital technology has increased availability of primary textual sources, radically changing the everyday life of scholars in the humanities, who are now able to access, query and process a wealth of empirical evidence in ways not possible before. Also for ancient languages, corpora enhanced with increasingly complex layers of metalinguistic information, such as part-of-speech tagging and syntactic annotation (called 'treebanks') are now available. In particular, diachronic treebanks, which provide data for a language across several historical stages of a given language, allow for a new approach to diachronic studies of syntactic phenomena where scholars previously had to content themselves with empirical work on a much smaller scale. This volume brings together a set of papers that report research on various diachronic matters supported by evidence from diachronic treebanks. The contents of the papers cover a wide range of languages, including English, French, Russian, Old Church Slavonic, Latin and Ancient Greek. Originally published as special issue of Diachronica 35:3 (2018)"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 08, 2020)
Subject Historical linguistics -- Methodology
Corpora (Linguistics) -- Data processing
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax -- Data processing
Computational linguistics -- Methodology.
Computational linguistics -- Methodology
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax -- Data processing
Historical linguistics -- Methodology
Form Electronic book
Author Eckhoff, Hanne Martine, editor.
Luraghi, Silvia, 1958- editor.
Passarotti, Marco, editor.
LC no. 2020029085
ISBN 9789027260451
9027260451