1: Context
2: Foundations
3: Corpora and quantitative methods in historical linguistics
4: Historical corpus annotation
5: (Re)using resources for historical languages
6: The role of numbers in historical linguistics
7: A new methodology
Gard B. Jenset studied English, history, and computer science
before earning his PhD in English linguistics, specializing in
historical corpus linguistics, from the University of Bergen
(2010). After working as an associate professor of English
Linguistics at Bergen University College, he took up work on
artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and
computational linguistics in industry. He has published research in
historical linguistics, corpus
linguistics, and applied linguistics. Barbara McGillivray holds a
degree in Mathematics and one in Classics from the University of
Florence (Italy), and a Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics from
the
University of Pisa (2010). She has worked as a language
technologist in the Dictionary division of Oxford University Press
and as a data scientist in the Open Research Group of Springer
Nature. She is currently a Research Fellow at the Alan Turing
Institute/University of Cambridge. She has published in the fields
of mathematics, corpus linguistics, computational linguistics,
historical linguistics, and lexicography. Her monograph Methods in
Latin Computational Linguistics was published
by Brill in 2013.
Jenset and McGillivray's work is novel in applying this to
historical linguistics, providing a step-by-step guide to the
research process (Chapter 7) and case studies on historical
linguistic phenomena. Overall, it is a clearly written,
well-conceived guide to quantitative historical linguistics,
combin-ing both theoretical background and practical
instructions.
*Monika Foldenauer, Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics*
Corpus-driven quantitative approaches have huge potentials in
historical linguistics, and this treatise on methodology provides a
firm starting point for historical linguists to know and accept
these approaches, in an informative and accessible manner. I
believe scholars will greatly benefit from reading this book.
*Foinse 'O Caoimh, Linguist List*
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