Paper Info
Title
Corpus-Based Dialectometry: Aggregate Morphosyntactic Variability In British English Dialects
Abstract
The research reported in this paper departs from most previous work in dialectometry in several ways. Empirically, it draws on frequency vectors derived from naturalistic corpus data and not on discrete atlas classifications. Linguistically, it is concerned with morphosyntactic (as opposed to lexical or pronunciational) variability. Methodologically, it marries the careful analysis of dialect phenomena in authentic, naturalistic texts to aggregational-dialectometrical techniques. Two research questions guide the investigation: First, on methodological grounds, is corpus-based dialectometry viable at all? Second, to what extent is morphosyntactic variation in nonstandard British dialects patterned geographically? By way of validation, findings will be matched against previous work on the dialect geography of Great Britain.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.3366/E1753854809000433
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES AND ARTS COMPUTING-A JOURNAL OF DIGITAL HUMANITIES
DocType
Volume
Issue
Journal
2
1-2
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1753-8548
1
0.37
References 
Authors
0
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Benedikt Szmrecsanyi110.71