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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. 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.
Lays out key corpus-building strategies for working with regional
data at different levels of linguistic analysis: syntax, lexicon,
morphology, and phonetics/phonology. Shows how traditional methods
of Historical Dialectology can benefit from new methods of
data-collection to test out theoretical and empirical claims.
Highlights opportunities and pitfalls for analysing the relation
between sound systems and spellingsDrawing 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.
This book offers an innovative, corpus-driven approach to
historical legal discourse. It is the first monograph to examine
textual standardization patterns in legal and administrative texts
on the basis of lexical bundles, drawing on a comprehensive corpus
of medieval and early modern legal texts. The book's focus is on
legal language in Scotland, where law--with its own nomenclature
and its own repertoire of discourse features--was shaped and marked
by the concomitant standardizing of the vernacular language, Scots,
a sister language to the English of the day.
Joanna Kopaczyk's study is based on a unique combination of two
methodological frameworks: a rigorous corpus-driven data analysis
and a pragmaphilological, context-sensitive qualitative
interpretation of the findings. Providing the reader with a rich
socio-historical background of legal discourse in medieval and
early modern Scottish burghs, Kopaczyk traces the links between
orality, community, and law, which are reflected in discourse
features and linguistic standardization of legal and administrative
texts. In this context, the book also revisits important
ingredients of legal language, such as binomials or performatives.
Kopaczyk's study is grounded in the functional approach to language
and pays particular attention to referential, interpersonal, and
textual functions of lexical bundles in the texts. It also
establishes a connection between the structure and function of the
recurrent patterns, and paves the way for the employment of new
methodologies in historical discourse analysis.
Binomials, such as for and against, dead or alive, to have and to
hold, can be broadly defined as two words belonging to the same
grammatical category and linked by a semantic relationship. They
are an important phraseological phenomenon present throughout the
history of the English language. This volume offers a range of
studies on binomials, their types and functions from Old English
through to the present day. Searching for motivations and
characteristic features of binomials in a particular genre or
writer, the chapters engage with many linguistic levels of
analysis, such as phonology or semantics, and explore the important
role of translation. Drawing on philological and corpus-linguistic
approaches, the authors employ qualitative and quantitative
methods, setting the discussion firmly in the extra-linguistic
context. Binomials and their extended forms - multinomials - emerge
from these discussions as an important phraseological tool, with
rich applications and complex motivations.
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