Quotations, Relevance and Time Depth: Medieval Arabic Literature in Grids and Networks

Abstract

Based on a diachronic corpus of Arabic (CLAUDia), the contribution describes the methodology for creation a grid consisting of individual authors and their works and a network consisting of overt or covert quotations among the authors. Two case studies are included.

Keywords

• Corpus linguistics
• Arabic medieval literature
• grid
• network
• computational analysis