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Author Jenset, Gard B., author

Title Quantitative historical linguistics : a corpus framework / Gard B. Jenset and Barbara McGillivray
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017

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Series Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; 26
[Oxford linguistics]
Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; 26.
Oxford linguistics.
Contents Cover; Quantitative Historical Linguistics: A Corpus Framework; Copyright; Contents; Series preface; List of figures and tables; 1: Methodological challenges in historical linguistics; 1.1 Aims of this book; 1.2 Context and motivation; 1.2.1 Empirical methods; 1.2.2 Models in historical linguistics; 1.2.3 A new pace; 1.3 Main claims; 1.3.1 The example-based approach; 1.3.2 The importance of corpus annotation; 1.3.3 Problems with certain quantitative analyses; Letting numbers speak for themselves; Dealing with linguistic complexity; 1.3.4 Problems with the research process; New technologies
1.3.5 Conceptual difficulties1.4 Can quantitative historical linguistics cross the chasm?; 1.4.1 Who uses new technology?; The innovators; The visionaries; The early majority; Thelatemajority; The sceptics; 1.4.2 One size does not fit all: the chasm; 1.4.3 Perils of the chasm; 1.5 A historical linguistics meta study; 1.5.1 An empirical baseline; 1.5.2 Quantitative historical research in 2012; 2: Foundations of the framework; 2.1 A new framework; 2.1.1 Scope; 2.1.2 Basic assumptions; The historical linguistic reality is lost; Philological and text-critical research is fundamental
Grammars and dictionaries are indispensableQualitative models; 2.1.3 Definitions; Evidence; Claim; Truth and probability; Historical corpus; Linguistic annotation scheme; Hypothesis; Model; Trend; 2.2 Principles; 2.2.1 Principle 1: Consensus; 2.2.2 Principle 2: Conclusions; 2.2.3 Principle 3: Almost any claim is possible; 2.2.4 Principle 4: Some claims are stronger than others; 2.2.5 Principle 5: Strong claims require strong evidence; 2.2.6 Principle 6: Possibly does not entail probably; 2.2.7 Principle 7:The weakest link; 2.2.8 Principle 8: Spell out quantities
2.2.9 Principle 9: Trends should be modelled probabilistically2.2.10 Principle 10: Corpora are the prime source of quantitative evidence; 2.2.11 Principle 11: The crud factor; 2.2.12 Principle 12: Mind your stats; 2.3 Best practices and research infrastructure; 2.3.1 Divide and conquer: reproducible research; 2.3.2 Language resource standards and collaboration; 2.3.3 Reproducibility in historical linguistics research; Documentation; Sharing and publishing research objects; 2.3.4 Historical linguistics and other disciplines; 2.4 Data-driven historical linguistics
2.4.1 Corpus-based, corpus-driven, and data-driven approaches2.4.2 Data-driven approaches outside linguistics; 2.4.3 Data and theory; Theory in data representation; Theoretical assumptions; Data and theoretical hypotheses; 2.4.4 Combining data and linguistic approaches; 3: Corpora and quantitative methods in historical linguistics; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Early experiments; 3.3 A bad case of glottochronology; 3.4 The advent of electronic corpora; 3.5 Return of the numbers; 3.6 What's in a number anyway?; 3.7 The case against numbers in historical linguistics
Summary This book outlines a new framework for quantitatively assessing models and hypotheses in historical linguistics. It offers an in-depth explanation and discussion of the benefits of working with quantitative methods, corpus data, and corpus annotation, and the advantages of open and reproducible research
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Historical linguistics.
historical linguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
Historical linguistics
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191787515
0191787515
9780191028014
0191028010
0198718179
9780198718178