One Era’s Nonsense, Another’s Norm: Diachronic study of Greek and the Computer
This paper sets out to explore how and why digital editions of texts or text-versions could facilitate a truly diachronic study of the Greek language. It points out shortcomings of existing digital infrastructure and argues in favour of a general shift of focus towards linguistic analysis of transmitted texts with the help of electronic corpora that primarily model medieval manuscripts rather than modern editions.
Published in: Digital Research in the Study of Classical Antiquity, edited by Gabriel Bodard (King’s College London, UK) and Simon Mahony (University College London, UK), Ashgate 2010, ISBN 978-0-7546-7773-4 £ 55.00
For full details and the publishers blurb, see:
http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754677734
You can download the PDF-file here (with thanks to Ashgate for allowing self-archiving of my contribution).
Trackbacks/Pingbacks
[...] εικόνας. Κάποια πράγματα σχετικά τα έχω δημοσιεύσει εδώ, εδώ, εδώ και εδώ· εδώ παρουσίασα το έργο άλλων σχετικά [...]
[...] am quite happy that my One Era’s Nonsense, Another’s Norm article is quoted in this report. If nothing else, interdisciplinary work is getting [...]
[...] in the Study of Classical Antiquity Skipping ahead, a similar point is made more effectively in Notis Toufexis’ chapter on the diachronic study of Greek. Toufexis argues very convincingly that text mark-up allows us to [...]