Annotated Corpus of Pre-Standardized Balkan Slavic Literature

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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.

Identifier
PID http://hdl.handle.net/11356/1368
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1515/slaw-2020-0014
Related Identifier http://hdl.handle.net/11356/1441
Related Identifier http://p3.snf.ch/Project-176378
Metadata Access http://www.clarin.si/repository/oai/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=oai:www.clarin.si:11356/1368
Provenance
Creator Šimko, Ivan
Publisher Slavic Seminary, University of Zurich
Publication Year 2020
Rights GNU General Public Licence, version 3; https://opensource.org/licenses/GPL-3.0; PUB
OpenAccess true
Contact info(at)clarin.si
Representation
Language Bulgarian; Macedonian
Resource Type corpus
Format application/pdf; application/zip; text/plain; charset=utf-8; downloadable_files_count: 3
Discipline Linguistics