Chronologicon Hibernicum (ChronHib): A Probabilistic Chronological Framework for Dating Early Irish Language Developments and Literature
Principal Investigator: Prof. David Stifter
Duration: 2015–2021
The ChronHib project was funded by a European Research Council Consolidator Grant (Horizon 2020 grant agreement no. 647351). Its central objective was to refine the methodology for dating Early Medieval Irish language developments (6th–mid-10th century) and to build a chronological framework of linguistic changes that can be used to date literary texts. A major output of the project was the lexicographic database Corpus PalaeoHibernicum (CorPH) with currently 78 deeply annotated Old and Middle Irish texts. The second aim was to make progress in the methodology of linguistic dating in general, in particular with regard to employing statistical methods (especially Bayesian statisticis) to achieve quantifiable probabilities.
Postdoctoral researchers: Dr Marco Aquino López, Dr Bernhard Bauer, Dr Elliott Lash, Dr Fangzhe Qiu, Dr Nora White.
Research assistants: Tianbo Ji, Godstime Osarobo; Francesco Felici, Ellen Ganly, Truc Ha Nguyen.
PhD students: Romanas Bulatovas, Lars Nooij.
Literature: D. Stifter, F. Qiu, M. A. Aquino-López, B. Bauer, E. Lash, N. White, ‘Strategies in tracing linguistic variation in a corpus of Old Irish texts (CorPH)’, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 27/4 (2022), 529–553. https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.22018.sti.