Fuzzy Reconstructions in Linguistics

摘要

Application of fuzzy modeling in historical linguistics constitutes the contribution of the paper. Synonymic sets and word semantic structures of an Older Scots adjective are interpreted as associative fields, and on the other hand, as fuzzy sets. The resulting fuzzy associative linguistic diachronic reconstructions, including fuzzy associative fields (FAF) and fuzzy associative word structures (FAWS), along with their combination into a fuzzy associative adjectival network (FAAN) with further fuzzy semantic differentiation and lexis stratification, represent a fragment of a fuzzy adjectival associative thesaurus of Older Scots. Generally saying, the work demonstrates the use of artificial intelligence tools in diachronic linguistic, which is rather unexperienced practice.