Diachronic Treebanks for Historical Linguistics
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).
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).
[Benjamins Current Topics, 113] 2020. v, 154 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 31 July 2020
Published online on 31 July 2020
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Introduction. The added value of diachronic treebanks for historical linguisticsHanne Martine Eckhoff, Silvia Luraghi and Marco Passarotti | pp. 1–14
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Split coordination in English: Why we need parsed corporaAnn Taylor and Susan Pintzuk | pp. 15–40
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A corpus approach to the history of Russian po delimitativesHanne Martine Eckhoff | pp. 41–68
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Non-configurationality in diachrony: Correlations in local and global networks of Ancient Greek and LatinEdoardo Maria Ponti and Silvia Luraghi | pp. 69–94
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Text form and grammatical changes in Medieval French: A treebank-based diachronic studyAlexandra Simonenko, Benoît Crabbé and Sophie Prévost | pp. 95–128
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Spoken Latin behind written texts: Formulaicity and salience in medieval documentary textsTimo Korkiakangas | pp. 129–148
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Subject index | pp. 149–150
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Index of languages | pp. 151–152
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Index of authors | pp. 153–154
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFF: Historical & comparative linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009010: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative