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The Predictability of {S} Abbreviation in Older Scots Manuscripts According to Stem-final Littera 古苏格兰手稿中{S}缩写的可预见性

Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age Pub Date : 2019-05-01 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474430531.003.0009

Daisy Smith

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引用次数: 6

‘He was a good hammer, was he’: Gender as Marker for South-Western Dialects of English. A Corpus-based Study from a Diachronic Perspective “他是个好榔头，是吗?”:西南英语方言的性别标记。基于语料库的历时性研究

Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age Pub Date : 2019-05-01 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474430531.003.0011

Trinidad Guzmán-González

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引用次数: 0

Examining the Evidence for Phonemic Affricates: Middle English /t͡ʃ/, /d͡ʒ/ or [t-ʃ], [d-ʒ]? 音位亲词形的证据检验:中古英语/t [j]， /d [j]或[t- j]， [d- j]?

Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age Pub Date : 2019-05-01 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474430531.003.0008

D. Minkova

引用次数: 1

The Development of Old English ǣ: Middle English Spelling Evidence 古英语的发展:中古英语拼写证据

Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age Pub Date : 2019-05-01 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474430531.003.0006

Gjertrud F. Stenbrenden

引用次数: 0

Old and Middle English Spellings for OE hw-, with Special Reference to the ‘qu-’ Type: In Celebration of LAEME, (e)LALME, LAOS and CoNE: In Memoriam Angus McIntosh OE的古英语和中古英语拼写，特别参考“qu-”类型:In Celebration of LAEME， (e)LALME, LAOS和CoNE: In Memoriam Angus McIntosh

Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age Pub Date : 2019-05-01 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474430531.003.0005

M. Laing, R. Lass

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引用次数: 14

The Development of Old English eo/ēo and the Systematicity of Middle English Spelling 古英语eo/ēo的发展与中古英语拼写的系统性

Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age Pub Date : 2019-05-01 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474430531.003.0007

Merja Stenroos

引用次数: 0

Approaching Transition Scots from a Micro-perspective: The Dunfermline Corpus, 1573–1723 从微观角度看苏格兰人的转型:邓弗姆林语料库，1573-1723

Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age Pub Date : 2019-05-01 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474430531.003.0003

K. Hofmann

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Historical Dialectology and the Angus McIntosh Legacy 历史方言学与安格斯·麦金托什遗产

Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age Pub Date : 2019-01-30 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474430531.003.0001

Rhona Alcorn, J. Kopaczyk, Bettelou Los, Benjamin Molineaux

引用次数: 2

Early Spelling Evidence for Scots L-vocalisation: A Corpus-based Approach 苏格兰人l -发声的早期拼写证据:基于语料库的方法

Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age Pub Date : 2018-11-01 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474430531.003.0004

Benjamin Molineaux, J. Kopaczyk, Rhona Alcorn, Warren Maguire, Vasilis Karaiskos, Bettelou Los

引用次数: 1

A Parsed Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English 中古早期英语解析语言地图集

Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age Pub Date : 2016-06-10 DOI: 10.7488/DS/2310

R. Truswell, Rhona Alcorn, J. Donaldson, Joel C. Wallenberg

引用次数: 5