Annotated Corpus of Pre-Standardized Balkan Slavic Literature

  Authors

Šimko, Ivan

  Item identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/11356/1368

 Project URL

http://p3.snf.ch/Project-176378

 Referenced by

https://doi.org/10.1515/slaw-2020-0014

 Date issued

2020-11-03

 Type

corpus, text

 Size

15 texts, 32729 tokens

 Language(s)

Bulgarian , Macedonian

 Description

The corpus contains 15 linguistically annotated samples of "damaskini" and other Balkan Slavic manuscripts and print editions from the 16th-19th century, together with over 30 thousand tokens. The texts have similar prose narratives and topics, i.e. hagiographies and apocalyptic themes. The majority of the texts are various editions of the "Life of St. Petka" by Patriarch Euthymius of Tarnovo. The primary goal of the corpus is to provide data for studies of developments in both spoken and written language in the mentioned area and period, especially the features typical for the Balkan sprachbund, e.g. postponed articles, and the analytic infinitive. The corpus has been manually lemmatized and annotated with MULTEXT-East morphosyntactic descriptions developed specifically for this corpus (http://nl.ijs.si/ME/V6/msd/html/msd-bg-dam.html) as well as syntactically analyzed with dependency relations following the Universal Dependencies guidelines (up to Level 2 validation).The annotation reflects a wide spectrum of morphosyntactic features of both archaic (Church Slavonic) and innovative (Bulgarian, Macedonian) varieties. The corpus is a vailable both in source TSV and derived CoNLL-U formats. The TSV format includes tokens including accentuation and interpunction, while CoNLL-U uses a diplomatized transcript, more useful for a full-text search. The author would like to thank Olivier Winistörfer for his invaluable help in preparing the corpus.

 Publisher

Slavic Seminary, University of Zurich

 Acknowledgement

SNSF 176378 "‘Ill-bred sons’, family and friends: tracing the multiple affiliations of Balkan Slavic"

 Subject(s)

literature damaskini manual annotation part-of-speech tagging lemmatisation dependency treebank

 Collection(s)

CLARIN.SI data & tools

 

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