One Era’s Nonsense, Another’s Norm: Diachronic study of Greek and the computer
Digital Research in the Study of Classical Antiquity, London: Ashgate
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.
To appear in: G. Bodard, S. Mahony (ed.), Digital Research in the Study of Classical Antiquity, London: Ashgate (forthcoming Spring 2010)
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