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27 Ott 2025 14:00

Letters Across: Corpus-Linguistic Inquiries into Medieval Hebrew-French Glossaries

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Abstract: The Hebrew-French Bible glossaries of the 13th century are exceptional witnesses of both Medieval Ashkenazi Hebrew and Old French. Their ongoing edition generates a corpus containing implicit phonological and graphematic knowledge as well as explicit lexical, morphological and morphosyntactic annotations. We have to ask key questions when dealing with those properties: How did the glossators understand the Hebrew lemmata and their grammatical forms? How did they conceptualize the Old French forms and their relationship to the Biblical Hebrew? Which transcripturation (cf. Baglioni/Tribulato 2015) strategies enabled them to devise phonologically plausible solutions when rendering those forms in Hebrew graphemes? This talk will demonstrate how quantitative digital corpus analysis can contribute to answering these research questions and shed light on the glossators’ linguistic practices.

Bio: Fabian Strobel studied Computational Linguistics, Jewish Studies and Digital Humanities in Heidelberg and Leipzig. He is currently working as a research assistant for Digital Humanities in the project Bible Glossaries as Hidden Cultural Carriers and pursueing a PhD in Computational Linguistics.

 

Zoom Link: https://unive.zoom.us/j/81095144232

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