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<div class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><i class="">Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age </i></b></div>
<div class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class="">(eds. Rhona Alcorn, Joanna Kopaczyk, Bettelou Los & Benjamin Molineaux) </b></div>
<div class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Edinburgh University Press</b></div>
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A survey of applications of digital methods and tools to explore the linguistic features of regional varieties in historical texts</h4>
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Drawing on the resources created by the Institute of Historical Dialectology at the University of 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.</p>
<div class=""><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 14px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(242, 247, 253);" class="">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.</span> </div>
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<div class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Table of Contents:</b></div>
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1 Historical Dialectology and the Angus McIntosh Legacy</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;" class="">Rhona Alcorn, Joanna Kopaczyk, Bettelou Los and Benjamin Molineaux</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;" class="">Part 1 Creating and Mining Digital Resources</p>
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2 A Parsed Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;" class="">Robert Truswell, Rhona Alcorn, James Donaldson and Joel Wallenberg</p>
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3 Approaching Transition Scots from a Micro-perspective; The Dunfermline Corpus, 1573–1723</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;" class="">Klaus Hofmann</p>
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4 Early Spelling Evidence for Scots L-vocalisation: A Corpus-based Approach</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;" class="">Benjamin Molineaux, Joanna Kopaczyk, Warren Maguire, Rhona Alcorn, Vasilis Karaiskos and Bettelou Los</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;" class="">Part 2 Segmental Histories</p>
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5 Old and Middle English Spellings for OE <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: italic;" class="">hw-</span>, with Special Reference to the ‘qu-’ Type: In Celebration of LAEME, (e)LALME, LAOS and CoNE</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;" class="">Margaret Laing and Roger Lass</p>
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6 The Development of Old English <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: italic;" class="">ǣ</span>: The Middle English Spelling Evidence</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;" class="">Gjertrud F. Stenbrenden</p>
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7 The Development of Old English <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: italic;" class="">eo/ēo</span> and the Systematicity of Middle English Spelling</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;" class="">Merja Stenroos</p>
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8 Examining the Evidence for Phonemic Affricates: Middle English /t͡ʃ/, /d͡ʒ/ or [t-ʃ], [d-ʒ]?</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;" class="">Donka Minkova</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;" class="">Part 3 Placing Features in Context</p>
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9 The Predictability of {S} Abbreviation in Older Scots Manuscripts According to Stem-final <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: italic;" class="">Littera</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;" class="">Daisy Smith</p>
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10 An East Anglian Poem in a London Manuscript? The Date and Dialect of <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: italic;" class="">The Court of Love</span> in Cambridge, Trinity College, MS R.3.19</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;" class="">Ad Putter</p>
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11 <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: italic;" class="">‘He was a good hammer, was he’</span>: Gender as Marker for South-Western Dialects of English. A Corpus-based Study from a Diachronic Perspective</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;" class="">Trinidad Guzmán-González</p>
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<div class="">All the best,</div>
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Leverhulme Early Career Fellow<br class="">
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Out now: <a href="https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-historical-dialectology-in-the-digital-age-hb.html" class="">Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age</a>, EUP (with R. Alcorn, B. Los and J. Kopaczyk)</div>
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