Historical dialectology in the digital age / edited by Rhona Alcorn, Joanna Kopaczyk, Bettelou Los and Benjamin Molineaux

Drawing on the resources created by the Institute of Historical Dialectology at the University of Edinburgh this volume illustrates how traditional methods of historical dialectology can benefit from new methods of data-collection to test out theoretical and empirical claims

Includes bibliographical references and index

Historical dialectology and the Angus McIntosh legacy / Rhona Alcorn, Joanna Kopaczyk, Bettelou Los and Benjamin Molineaux -- A parsed linguistic atlas of early Middle English / Robert Truswell, Rhona Alcorn, James Donaldson and Joel Wallenberg -- Approaching transition Scots from a micro-perspective: the Dunfermline Corpus, 1573-1723 / Klaus Hofmann -- Early spelling evidence for Scots L-vocalisation: a corpus-based approach / Benjamin Molineaux, Joanna Kopaczyk, Warren Maguire, Rhona Alcorn, Vasilis Karaiskos and Bettelou Los -- Old and Middle English spellings for OE hw-, with special reference to the 'qu-' type: in celebration of LAEME, (e)LALME, LAOS and CoNE / Margaret Laing and Roger Lass -- The development of Old English æ: Middle English spelling evidence / Gjertrud F. Stenbrenden -- The development of Old English eo/ēo and the systematicity of Middle English spelling / Merja Stenroos -- Examining the evidence for phonemic affricates: Middle English /tf/, /d3/ or [t-f], [d-3]? / Donka Minkova -- The predictability of {S} abbreviation in older Scots manuscripts according to stem-final Littera / Daisy Smith -- An East Anglian poem in a London manuscript? The date and dialect of The Court of Love in Cambridge, Trinity College MS R.3.19 / Ad Putter -- 'He was a good hammer, was he': gender as marker for South-Western dialects of English. A corpus-based study from a diachronic perspective / Trinidad Guzmán-González

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