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<div>Best,</div>
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<div>Andi</div>
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<div style="margin:0 0 10px 0;"><b>Gesendet:</b> Donnerstag, 24. März 2022 um 08:14 Uhr<br/>
<b>Von:</b> "Sebastian Nordhoff" <sebastian.nordhoff@glottotopia.de><br/>
<b>An:</b> "lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org" <lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org><br/>
<b>Betreff:</b> [Lingtyp] Examplology: imtvault.org</div>
<div name="quoted-content">Dear list members,<br/>
there has been some discussion about "hit", "kill", "John", "Mary", and<br/>
other usual suspects. Over the past months, we have worked on a corpus<br/>
of all examples found in Language Science Press books. This corpus is<br/>
now available in a beta version at imtvault.org. It contains 40648<br/>
interlinear examples from 124 different languages and can be filtered<br/>
along various criteria. For instance, we can search for John, Mary, or<br/>
Peter.<br/>
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<a href="https://imtvault.org/?q=John" target="_blank">https://imtvault.org/?q=John</a>: 266 hits<br/>
<a href="https://imtvault.org/?q=Mary" target="_blank">https://imtvault.org/?q=Mary</a>: 223 hits<br/>
<a href="https://imtvault.org/?q=Peter" target="_blank">https://imtvault.org/?q=Peter</a>: 232 hits<br/>
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We can look into the popularity of certain verbs:<br/>
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<a href="https://imtvault.org/?q=hit" target="_blank">https://imtvault.org/?q=hit</a>: 399 hits<br/>
<a href="https://imtvault.org/?q=kill" target="_blank">https://imtvault.org/?q=kill</a>: 440 hits<br/>
<a href="https://imtvault.org/?q=love" target="_blank">https://imtvault.org/?q=love</a>: 181 hits<br/>
<a href="https://imtvault.org/?q=kiss" target="_blank">https://imtvault.org/?q=kiss</a>: 26 hits<br/>
<a href="https://imtvault.org/?q=carry" target="_blank">https://imtvault.org/?q=carry</a>: 235 hits<br/>
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We have also retrieved semantic categories, so you get<br/>
<a href="https://imtvault.org/?parententities" target="_blank">https://imtvault.org/?parententities</a>[0]=Crop<br/>
which gives you examples about tobacco, rice, barley, wheat and so on.<br/>
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Other categories which might be interesting:<br/>
<a href="https://imtvault.org/?parententities" target="_blank">https://imtvault.org/?parententities</a>[0]=Weapon: 89 hits<br/>
<a href="https://imtvault.org/?parententities" target="_blank">https://imtvault.org/?parententities</a>[0]=Hazard: 205 hits<br/>
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You can also filter for grammatical categories. In the examples in the<br/>
corpus, 2808 have a plural morpheme in them, while 2116 have a singular<br/>
morpheme. Accusative (1937) is more popular than genitive (1601), dative<br/>
(1309) or nominative (1232).<br/>
<br/>
The content of the corpus is obviously skewed by the following criteria:<br/>
1) The coverage of the input books. Australia for instance is severely<br/>
underrepresented.<br/>
2) The length of the input books. "A grammar of Japhug" is 1600 pages,<br/>
so you are likely to get a lot of Japhug grammatical categories.<br/>
3) The source code of the books. We extract the examples from the tex<br/>
files used to generate the pdf, and assume certain conventions. If a<br/>
book author does not follow these conventions, we are not able to<br/>
retrieve the examples.<br/>
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All this means that the corpus, despite its size, is still<br/>
opportunistic. But it can maybe trigger some interesting ideas, which<br/>
can be pursued further by a more systematic approach. We are also<br/>
working on making the data available for machine queries so that you can<br/>
import the corpus into R or similar and run your own statistics.<br/>
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There are still some rough edges here and there, but we will be working<br/>
on ironing them out. If you have any suggestions or feature requests,<br/>
feel free to contact me.<br/>
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Best wishes<br/>
Sebastian (also on behalf of Thomas Krämer)<br/>
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PS: If you are wondering about the high frequency of Greek philosophers,<br/>
they are all from our translation of Wackernagel's "On a law of<br/>
Indo-European word order"<br/>
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