Diachronic Dialectology Fencing the merciless Lourna Dee

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Diachronic Dialectology Fencing the merciless Lourna DeeThis book offers a solution to the problem of historical dialectology: how can we know how past dialect distributions evolved from noisy and unreliable historical sources? It is extremely difficult to answer such questions with traditional qualitative methods, while quantitative methods were previously prohibitively labour intensive. But modern computing resources and digitised sources make these questions tractable. The book presents the use of