TY - JOUR
T1 - Variation in Middle Welsh Conjugated Prepositions: Chronology, Register and Dialect
AU - Sims-Williams, Patrick
PY - 2013/3
Y1 - 2013/3
N2 - Middle Welsh can now be studied exhaustively owing to the availability of millions of words of text, mostly in machine-readable form. This paper analyses the extensive variation in conjugated prepositions seen in thirteenth-century manuscripts, and uses it to shed light on the evolution of the language between Old and Modern Welsh, on the varying linguistic preferences of poets and prose writers, and on the emergence of the Welsh dialects.
AB - Middle Welsh can now be studied exhaustively owing to the availability of millions of words of text, mostly in machine-readable form. This paper analyses the extensive variation in conjugated prepositions seen in thirteenth-century manuscripts, and uses it to shed light on the evolution of the language between Old and Modern Welsh, on the varying linguistic preferences of poets and prose writers, and on the emergence of the Welsh dialects.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/2160/11216
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84873667629&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/j.1467-968X.2012.01311.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-968X.2012.01311.x
M3 - Article
SN - 1467-968X
VL - 111
SP - 1
EP - 50
JO - Transactions of the Philological Society
JF - Transactions of the Philological Society
IS - 1
ER -