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Intertextuality and Sociolectal Differentiation in Old Saxon and Old English Verse: A Stylometric Analysis Using N-grams.

This essay examines the relationship between Old Saxon and Old English poetry using computational stylometry, specifically n-gram analysis. The shared n-grams indicate that the two verse corpora are so closely related that they can be considered expressions of the same poetic language. The Old Saxon...

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Published in:Modern Philology Vol. 119; no. 4; pp. 443 - 468
Main Author: Battles, Paul
Format: Article
Published: University of Chicago Press May2022
Subjects:
Intertextuality
Stylometry
Communication network analysis
Sociolect
Beowulf
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