Towards the measurement of morphological variation in diachronic corpora
Speaker:
Alfonso Medina Urrea
Abstract:
Morphological profiles of a wide variety of languages can be gathered
applying unsupervised methods for the morphological segmentation of graphical words. Comparison of different profiles of one given language
from different diachronic states can be used for obtaining general
measurements of variation at the morphological level. In this presentation, quantitative data for three centuries of the Spanish
language spoken in Mexico will be presented (XVI, XVIII and XX centuries)
with the intent of corroborating (or not) intuitions put forward by philologists.