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Manuscripts in Time and Space: Experiments in Scriptometrics on an Old French Corpus

Jean-Baptiste Camps

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Witnesses of medieval literary texts, preserved in manuscript, are layered objects , being almost exclusively copies of copies. This results in multiple and hard to distinguish linguistic strata – the author's scripta interacting with the scriptae of the various scribes – in a context where literary written language is already a dialectal hybrid. Moreover, no single linguistic phenomenon allows to distinguish between different scriptae, and only the combination of multiple characteristics is likely to be significant [9] – but which ones? The most common approach is to search for these features in a set of previously selected texts, that are supposed to be representative of a given scripta. This can induce a circularity, in which texts are used to select features that in turn characterise them as belonging to a linguistic area. To counter this issue, this paper offers an unsupervised and corpus-based approach, in which clustering methods are applied to an Old French corpus to identify main divisions and groups. Ultimately, scriptometric profiles are built for each of them.
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hal-01695899 , version 1 (29-01-2018)

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Jean-Baptiste Camps. Manuscripts in Time and Space: Experiments in Scriptometrics on an Old French Corpus. Corpus-Based Research in the Humanities CRH-2, Jan 2018, Vienna, Austria. pp.55-64, ⟨10.5281/zenodo.1117924⟩. ⟨hal-01695899⟩
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