Corpus Size and Composition: Evidence from the Inflectional Morphology of Nouns in Old English and Old Frisian

Versloot, A.P.; Adamczyk, Elżbieta

doi:10.1163/9789401211918_021

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“…Every situational context and every genre has its own specific frequency profile, and also historical corpora have their own genrespecific biases (cf. Versloot and Adamczyk 2014). Nevertheless, we used the figures derived from the Dictionary of Old English corpus, and regard them as approximations of the actual frequencies of use (by 'average' speakers of Old English).…”

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Phonological constraints on morphology: Evidence from Old English nominal inflection

Adamczyk

Versloot

2019

Folia Linguistica

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Studying the complex interaction between phonological and morphological developments involved in the extensive reorganisation of nominal inflection in early English, we focus, primarily, on new inflectional endings that emerged by analogy in etymologically suffix-less paradigm forms of r-stems and root nouns. We argue that the analogical changes were essentially reactive to phonological developments, and to a large extent predictable in statistical terms. Investigating correlations in corpus data, we identify the factors that affected the probability that new analogical endings were adopted. The predictors of the directions of analogical change that we show to be robust include the syllable structure of the root, the salience of inherited and analogical inflectional markers, as well as their absolute and relative frequencies.

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Phonological constraints on morphology: Evidence from Old English nominal inflection

Adamczyk

Versloot

2019

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Medieval Multilingualism in Poland: Creating a Corpus of Greater Poland Court Oaths (Rotha)

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Adamczyk

2016

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia

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†In this paper we introduce the research plan for the preparation of a searchable electronic repository of the earliest extant legal oaths from medieval Poland drawing on the expertise in historical corpus-building developed for the history of English. The oaths survive in the overwhelmingly Latin land books from the period between 1386 and 1446 for six localities Greater Poland, in which the land courts operated: Poznań, Kościan, Pyzdry, Gniezno, Konin and Kalisz. A diplomatic edition of the oaths was published in five volumes by Polish historical linguists (Kowalewicz & Kuraszkiewicz 1959-1966. The edition is the only comprehensive resource of considerable scope (over 6300 oaths from the years 1386-1446) for the study of the earliest attestations of the Polish language beyond glosses. Recognising some limitations, but most of all its unparalleled coverage of the coexistence of Latin and the vernacular, the ROThA project embarks on transforming the edition into an open up-to-date digital resource. We thus aim to facilitate research into the history of Polish and Latin as well as of the legal system and the related social and linguistic issues of the period.

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Corpus Size and Composition: Evidence from the Inflectional Morphology of Nouns in Old English and Old Frisian

Cited by 2 publications

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Phonological constraints on morphology: Evidence from Old English nominal inflection

Phonological constraints on morphology: Evidence from Old English nominal inflection

Medieval Multilingualism in Poland: Creating a Corpus of Greater Poland Court Oaths (Rotha)

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