Diachronic treebanks for historical linguistics / edited by Hanne Martine Eckhoff, Silvia Luraghi, Marco Passarotti.
| Other author | Eckhoff, Hanne Martine. |
| Other author | Luraghi, Silvia, 1958- |
| Other author | Passarotti, Marco. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020] |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Benjamins current topics, 1874-0081 ; volume 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. |
| Abstract | "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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Diachronic treebanks for historical linguistics Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020] 9789027207982 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020029085 |
| ISBN | 9789027260451 (epub) |
| ISBN | (hardcover) |