Historical Dialectology and the Angus McIntosh Legacy

Alcorn, Rhona; Los, Bettelou; Kopaczyk, Joanna; Molineaux, Benjamin

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“…2017; Muehlberger et al, 2019] and eScriptorium [Kiessling et al, 2019] push editorial scholarship nowadays to new, unprecedented levels [see a.o. Alcorn et al, 2019].…”

Section: Scribal Profilingmentioning

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From exemplar to copy: the scribal appropriation of a Hadewijch manuscript computationally explored

Haverals¹,

Kestemont²

2023

Journal of Data Mining &Amp; Digital Humanities

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This study is devoted to two of the oldest known manuscripts in which the oeuvre of the medieval mystical author Hadewijch has been preserved: Brussels, KBR, 2879-2880 (ms. A) and Brussels, KBR, 2877-2878 (ms. B). On the basis of codicological and contextual arguments, it is assumed that the scribe who produced B used A as an exemplar. While the similarities in both layout and content between the two manuscripts are striking, the present article seeks to identify the differences. After all, regardless of the intention to produce a copy that closely follows the exemplar, subtle linguistic variation is apparent. Divergences relate to spelling conventions, but also to the way in which words are abbreviated (and the extent to which abbreviations occur). The present study investigates the spelling profiles of the scribes who produced mss. A and B in a computational way. In the first part of this study, we will present both manuscripts in more detail, after which we will consider prior research carried out on scribal profiling. The current study both builds and expands on Kestemont (2015). Next, we outline the methodology used to analyse and measure the degree of scribal appropriation that took place when ms. B was copied off the exemplar ms. A. After this, we will discuss the results obtained, focusing on the scribal variation that can be found both at the level of individual words and n-grams. To this end, we use machine learning to identify the most distinctive features that separate manuscript A from B. Finally, we look at possible diachronic trends in the appropriation by B's scribe of his exemplar. We argue that scribal takeovers in the exemplar impacts the practice of the copying scribe, while transitions to a different content matter cause little to no effect.

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“…2017; Muehlberger et al, 2019] and eScriptorium [Kiessling et al, 2019] push editorial scholarship nowadays to new, unprecedented levels [see a.o. Alcorn et al, 2019].…”

Section: Scribal Profilingmentioning

confidence: 99%

From exemplar to copy: the scribal appropriation of a Hadewijch manuscript computationally explored

Haverals¹,

Kestemont²

2023

Journal of Data Mining &Amp; Digital Humanities

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“…While the reconstruction of spoken language diachronically has been central to the fields of historical linguistics and historical dialectology (e.g. Dossena & Lass 2004, 2009; Boberg et al 2018; Alcorn et al 2019), the more recently established fields of historical pragmatics (e.g. Jucker 1995, 2000) and historical sociolinguistics (e.g.…”

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Special issue on speech representation in Late Modern English text types: introduction

AUER

2023

English Language and Linguistics

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Historical Dialectology and the Angus McIntosh Legacy

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From exemplar to copy: the scribal appropriation of a Hadewijch manuscript computationally explored

From exemplar to copy: the scribal appropriation of a Hadewijch manuscript computationally explored

Special issue on speech representation in Late Modern English text types: introduction

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