Diachronic Dialectology: New Methods and Case Studies in Medieval Norwegian by T

Description: Diachronic Dialectology by Tamsin S.T. Blaxter This book presents the use of kernelsmoothing, a family of methods adapted from fields such as signal processing, as a way to identify the true spatial distribution of linguistic forms at particular points in time. Discusses the use of kernel smoothing in historical dialectology and new approaches to parameter settingPresents a series of case studies from the history of Norwegian languageInvestigates some of the major phonological and morphosyntactic shifts which transformed the language from Old Norwegian through Middle to early Modern NorwegianDemonstrates how the kernel smoothing method allows us to see how these changes spread from place to place, and these findings are used to throw light on a number of more general research questions of interest to an audience beyond ScandinavianistsA step-by-step guide to kernel smoothing is offered, so that non-experts can apply the approach to their own data FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Back Cover This book offers a solution to the problem of historical dialectology: how can we know how past dialect distributions evolved from noisy and unreliable historical sources? It is extremely difficult to answer such questions with traditional qualitative methods, while quantitative methods were previously prohibitively labour-intensive. But modern computing resources and digitised sources make these questions tractable. The book presents the use of kernel smoothing , a family of methods adapted from fields such as signal processing, as a way to identify the true spatial distribution of linguistic forms at particular points in time. The use of kernel smoothing in historical dialectology and new approaches to parameter setting are discussed in chapter 2. The main part of the book then presents a series of case studies from the history of Norwegian. Some of the major phonological and morphosyntactic shifts which transformed the language from Old Norwegian through Middle to early Modern Norwegian are investigated. For the first time, the kernel smoothing method allows us to see how these changes spread from place to place, and these findings are used to throw light on a number of more general research questions of interest to an audience beyond Scandinavianists. Finally, a step-by-step guide to kernel smoothing is offered, so that non-experts can apply the approach to their own data. Flap This book offers a solution to the problem of historical dialectology: how can we know how past dialect distributions evolved from noisy and unreliable historical sources? It is extremely difficult to answer such questions with traditional qualitative methods, while quantitative methods were previously prohibitively labour-intensive. But modern computing resources and digitised sources make these questions tractable. The book presents the use of kernel smoothing , a family of methods adapted from fields such as signal processing, as a way to identify the true spatial distribution of linguistic forms at particular points in time. The use of kernel smoothing in historical dialectology and new approaches to parameter setting are discussed in chapter 2. The main part of the book then presents a series of case studies from the history of Norwegian. Some of the major phonological and morphosyntactic shifts which transformed the language from Old Norwegian through Middle to early Modern Norwegian are investigated. For the first time, the kernel smoothing method allows us to see how these changes spread from place to place, and these findings are used to throw light on a number of more general research questions of interest to an audience beyond Scandinavianists. Finally, a step-by-step guide to kernel smoothing is offered, so that non-experts can apply the approach to their own data. Author Biography After a BA in Linguistics at the University of Essex, Tamsin Blaxter did her MPhil in General Linguistics and Comparative Philology at the University of Oxford, with a dissertation that explored gendered language in the medieval Íslendingasögur. For her PhD at the University of Cambridge, she worked on language change and space in medieval Norway. Her work focuses on new methods of gathering and exploring large datasets in variationist linguistics, with a particular interest in space. Table of Contents List of figures List of tables Abbreviations and symbols Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 1.1. Foreword 1.2. Structure 2. The statistics of space in historical linguistics 2.1. Introduction 2.1.1. Visualising time and space: problems and solutions 2.2. Kernel smoothing 2.2.1. Kernel smoothing for spatial variation 2.2.2. Time 2.3. Parameter setting 2.3.1. Setting bandwidths based on real-world priors 2.3.2. Setting bandwidths based on predictive accuracy 2.3.3. Setting bandwidths based on power analysis 2.3.4. Conclusions 3. Language in medieval Norway and sources of data 3.1. Introduction 3.2. Norway and Norwegian in the late medieval period 3.2.1. Sociolinguistic statuses of the languages 3.2.2. Contact 3.2.3. A note on Jamtland 3.3. The Diplomatarium Norvegicum and the DN online 3.3.1. The Diplomatarium Norvegicum 3.3.2. Annotation 4. Variable definitions and datasets 4.1. Introduction 4.2. Phonological variables 4.2.1. Rise of svarabhakti vowels 4.2.2. Loss of voiceless dental fricatives 4.2.3. Loss of voiced dental fricatives 4.3. Morphological variables 4.3.1. Changes in agreement of verbs with 1sg. subjects 4.3.2. Changes in the form of 1pl and 1du. subject pronouns 4.3.3. Changes in agreement of verbs with 1pl and 1du. subjects 4.4. Syntactic variables 4.4.1. Loss of lexical genitives 5. Individual changes 5.1. Introduction 5.2. The loss of the dental fricatives 5.2.1. Timing 5.2.2. Spatial distribution 5.3. The loss of 1pl active -um 5.3.1. Timing 5.3.2. Spatial distribution 5.4. The Constant Rate Effect 5.5. Conclusions 6. The Trudgill conjecture 6.1. Introduction 6.2. Theoretical background 6.2.1. Trudgill, Dahl and McWhorter 6.2.2. Other proposals regarding relationships between complexity and social factors 6.2.3. The case of Nordic 6.3. Predictions 6.4. Variables 6.5. Spatial distributions 6.5.1. Loss of 1sg agreement in the present active 6.5.2. Loss of the voiced dental fricative 6.5.3. The rise of svarabhakti vowels 6.5.4. Loss of the voiceless dental fricative 6.5.5. Merger of 1du. pronoun into 1pl pronoun 6.5.6. Merger of 1pl pronoun into 1du. pronoun 6.5.7. Replacement of the 1pl pronoun by borrowed vi 6.5.8. Replacement of the 1du. pronoun by borrowed vi 6.5.9. Loss of 1pl middle agreement 6.5.10. Loss of genitive objects of millum 6.5.11. Loss of 1pl agreement in verb-subject order 6.5.12. Loss of 1pl agreement in subject-verb order 6.5.13. Loss of number agreement on present tense verbs 6.6. Conclusions 7. Spatial models of diffusion 7.1. Background 7.2. Methods 7.2.1. Approach 7.2.2. Hierarchicality measure 7.3. Variables 7.3.1. Replacement of 1pl v´er by reanalysed m´er 7.3.2. Replacement of 1du. vit by reanalysed mit 7.4. Results 7.5. Discussion 8. Conclusions 9. Annex: A step-by-step guide to kernel smoothing for historical dialectology 9.1. Introduction 9.2. Software and dependencies 9.3. Preparing your data 9.4. Preliminary exploration 9.5. Determining bandwidths 9.6. Temporal kernel smoothing 9.7. Spatial-temporal kernel smoothing 9.8. Spatial visualisation 10. Appendix Details ISBN1119858976 Short Title Diachronic Dialectology Series Publications of the Philological Society Language English ISBN-10 1119858976 ISBN-13 9781119858973 Format Paperback Imprint Wiley-Blackwell Subtitle New Methods and Case Studies in Medieval Norwegian Pages 272 Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd Year 2022 Place of Publication Hoboken NZ Release Date 2022-01-14 Author Tamsin S.T. Blaxter Publication Date 2022-02-04 DEWEY 439.82702 Audience Professional & Vocational US Release Date 2022-02-04 AU Release Date 2022-02-03 Country of Publication United Kingdom UK Release Date 2022-02-04 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:142205161;

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