Minority, non-European languages – such as indigenous American ones – are critically underrepresented in the literature on historical linguistics. This not only narrows our view of …
Minority, non-European languages – such as indigenous American ones – are critically underrepresented in the literature on language change. This not only narrows our view of the …
The bulk of our knowledge of language change comes from Indo-European languages, for which we have a vast historical record, and a long tradition of studies. Minority, …
Starting with its earliest records and into the seventeenth century (Meurman-Solin 1997), Scots displays overlapping ⟨cht⟩, ⟨ch⟩, ⟨tht⟩, ⟨th⟩ and ⟨t⟩ spellings for etymologically …
In this paper, we report on the construction and functionality of the From Inglis To Scots (FITS) corpus (Alcorn et al. forthcoming) which maps individual 15c Scots spellings onto …
The earliest records for the Native American language Mapudungun (presumed-isolate, Chile/ Argentina) date back to the early seventeenth century (Valdivia 1606, 1621). These …
B. Molineaux, J. Kopaczyk, V. Karaiskos, D. Smith, W. Maguire, R. Alcorn and B. Los While electronic corpora have improved data access for historical linguists, they are rarely …
Presentation on the relationship between morphological and prosodic structure in Mapudungun vs. English