Quantitative Historical Linguistics: A Corpus Framework

di Gard B. Jenset (Autore)

Barbara McGillivray (Autore)

Oxford University Press, 2017

This book is an innovative guide to quantitative, corpus-based research in historical and diachronic linguistics. Gard B. Jenset and Barbara McGillivray argue that, although historical linguistics has been successful in using the comparative method, the field lags behind other branches of linguistics with respect to adopting quantitative methods. Here they provide a theoretically agnostic description of a new framework for quantitatively assessing models and hypotheses in historical linguistics, based on corpus data and using case studies to illustrate how this framework can answer research questions in historical linguistics. The authors offer an in-depth explanation and discussion of the benefits of working with quantitative methods, corpus data, and corpus annotation, and the advantages of open and reproducible research. The book will be a valuable resource for graduate students and researchers in historical linguistics, as well as for all those working with linguistic corpora.

• Autore: Gard B. Jenset, Barbara McGillivray
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Collana: Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
• Anno: 2017
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 248 p.
• Dimensioni: 242 x 173 mm
• Peso: 540 gr.
• EAN: 9780198718178

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