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

Ben Molineaux Ress; Alpo Honkapohja; Joanna Kopaczyk; Vasilios Karaiskos; Rhona Alcorn; Bettelou Los; Warren Maguire

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

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

School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

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This paper presents key aspects of the data, methods and uses of the From Inglis to Scots (FITS) Corpus (Alcorn et al., 2021–), complementing Kopaczyk (2018) and focusing on the diachronic dimension of the resource. The corpus reconstructs sound values for individual Older Scots morphological root elements of Germanic origin as attested in the documentary record in Linguistic Atlas of Older Scots (LAOS). This is done by triangulating between the attested spelling, the sound values proposed in the literature for their etymological sources (dialects of Old English, Old Norse and Middle Dutch), and a series of plausible sound changes leading from the latter to the former (the Corpus of Changes). The challenges and possibilities of this approach are highlighted throughout, focusing on the diachronic mapping of Older Scots sounds to their origins and the intervening changes. An overview of the corpus’ capabilities is provided in tandem with its limitations.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	49-63
Journal	Corpora
Volume	18
Issue number	1
Publication status	Published - 27 Apr 2023

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corpus building
grapho-phonology
historical corpus phonology
Older Scots
sound change
spelling variation

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