From Inglis to Scots (FITS)

Apr 27, 2016

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Currently under construction, this corpus will survey the variation in spelling within the earliest recorded period of Scots (based on the data in LAOS). The objective is to elucidate the language’s underlying sound system, via the orthographic alternations within the Germanic morphemes of the corpus, as well as suggesting how their sound and spelling features developed from proposed sources. As in the case of CoNE, the corpus of forms (here the spelling and sound values of Germanic root-morphemes in LAOS) is accompanied by a corpus of changes tracing the attested forms back to a proposed source. The FITS team are Bettelou Los (PI), Rhona Alcorn (Co-investigator), Warren Maguire (Co-investigator), Joanna Kopaczyk (RA), Benjamin Molineaux (RA), and Vasilis Karaiskos (Programmer).

Benjamín Molineaux

Lecturer in Linguistics

I am a historical linguist, working on sounds, spellings, word structure and stress in Mapudungun and Older Scots.

Publications

The Corpus of Historical Mapudungun: Morpho-phonological parsing and the history of a Native American language

A technical account of the construction and use of the CHM

Benjamín Molineaux

A grapho-phonologically parsed corpus of medieval Scots: Variation across time

A technical account of diachronic aspects of the FITS corpus

Benjamín Molineaux, Alpo Honkapohja, Joanna Kopaczyk, Vasilios Karaiskos, Rhona Alcorn, Bettelou Los, Warren Maguire

Phonotactics, graphotactics and contrast: The history of Scots dental fricative spellings

A re-assessment of the history of ⟨þ⟩, ⟨ð⟩, ⟨y⟩ and ⟨th⟩ in Older Scots

Benjamín Molineaux, Joanna Kopaczyk, Rhona Alcorn, Vasilios Karaiskos, Warren Maguire, Bettelou Los

Visualising pre-standard spelling practice: Understanding the interchange of ⟨ch(t)⟩ and ⟨th(t)⟩ in Older Scots

An overview of the FITS Corpus ‘Medusa’ tool and its application to grapho-phonological research via a longstanding issue in the historical record of mediaeval Scots: the word-final alternation of ⟨cht⟩, ⟨ch⟩, ⟨tht⟩ and ⟨th⟩ and the range of pre-Scots sounds they are reflex to: [x], [xt] and [θ].

Benjamín Molineaux, Warren Maguire, Vasilios Karaiskos, Rhona Alcorn, Joanna Kopaczyk, Bettelou Los

Charting the rise and demise of a phonotactically motivated change in Scots

Variation in the voicing of fricatives in the Older Scots period

Warren Maguire, Rhona Alcorn, Benjamín Molineaux, Joanna Kopaczyk, Vasilios Karaiskos, Bettelou Los

Early spelling evidence for Scots L-vocalisation: a corpus-based approach

A re-assessment of the slow, context-dependent loss of ⟨l⟩ following Older Scots back vowels

Benjamín Molineaux, Joanna Kopaczyk, Warren Maguire, Rhona Alcorn, Vasilios Karaiskos, Bettelou Los

Towards a grapho-phonologically parsed corpus of medieval Scots: Database design and technical solutions

An introduction to the FITS corpus and grapho-phonology

Joanna Kopaczyk, Benjamín Molineaux, Vasilios Karaiskos, Rhona Alcorn, Bettelou Los, Warren Maguire

The emergence of Scots: Clues from Germanic *a reflexes

An exploration of the different etymological paths of Gmc *a and their outcome spellings in Older Scots. Also a good first introduction to the FITS methodologies

Rhona Alcorn, Benjamín Molineaux, Joanna Kopaczyk, Vasilios Karaiskos, Bettelou Los, Warren Maguire

Tracing L-vocalisation in early Scots

The first version of our re-assessment of the slow, context-dependent loss of ⟨l⟩ following Older Scots back vowels

Benjamín Molineaux, Joanna Kopaczyk, Warren Maguire, Rhona Alcorn, Vasilios Karaiskos, Bettelou Los