Morphology and dialectology in the Linguistic Survey of Scotland: A quantitative approach
We present a study of Gaelic dialectal variation based on the unpublished, morphological
section of the Linguistic Survey of Scotland (Gaelic). Our findings indicate that a quantitative
(dialectometric) approach can yield important insights into the range of internal variation in
Gaelic and elucidate certain issues of language structure. Here, we focus on two
questions:(1) what patterns of spatial variation are observed in the morphological data, and
(2) how are different morphological features in the dialects correlated?
section of the Linguistic Survey of Scotland (Gaelic). Our findings indicate that a quantitative
(dialectometric) approach can yield important insights into the range of internal variation in
Gaelic and elucidate certain issues of language structure. Here, we focus on two
questions:(1) what patterns of spatial variation are observed in the morphological data, and
(2) how are different morphological features in the dialects correlated?
Abstract
We present a study of Gaelic dialectal variation based on the unpublished, morphological section of the Linguistic Survey of Scotland (Gaelic). Our findings indicate that a quantitative (dialectometric) approach can yield important insights into the range of internal variation in Gaelic and elucidate certain issues of language structure. Here, we focus on two questions:(1) what patterns of spatial variation are observed in the morphological data, and (2) how are different morphological features in the dialects correlated?
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