Tag Archives: historical linguistics

“Rome Wasn’t Digitized in a Day”: Building a Cyberinfrastructure for Digital Classicists

“Rome Wasn’t Digitized in a Day”: Building a Cyberinfrastructure for Digital Classicists September 10th, 2011 by Simon Mahony A web only publication by Alison Babeu with good coverage of the Stoa and the Digital Classicist. Published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.   The author provides a summative and recent overview of the [...]

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Corpus linguistics in historical dialectology: a case study of Cypriot

Io Manolessou & Notis Toufexis University of Patras & University of Cambridge Abstract The present paper gives an overview of the branch of corpus linguistics that deals with historical corpora, i.e. electronic text compilations of of past forms of language, and discusses their applicability and availability for the study of the history of the Greek [...]

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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 [...]

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