33.2584, FYI: A Resource to Study Modality in Diachrony: release of the WoPoss Latin corpus and its user-friendly search interface

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Subject: 33.2584, FYI: A Resource to Study Modality in Diachrony: release of the WoPoss Latin corpus and its user-friendly search interface

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Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 02:43:03
From: Francesca Dell'Oro [francesca.delloro at unine.ch]
Subject: A Resource to Study Modality in Diachrony: release of the WoPoss Latin corpus and its user-friendly search interface

 
We are happy to inform you that we have recently released a sample of the
WoPoss corpus – an annotated corpus for the investigation of the diachrony of
modality in Latin – together with a user-friendly interface to query it. 

WoPoss – A World of Possibilities. Modal pathways over an extra-long period of
time: the diachrony of modality in the Latin language – is a project that aims
at setting up and annotating in a fine-grained way a balanced corpus of Latin
texts from the 3rd c. BCE to the 7th c. CE in order to investigate the
evolution of lexical and morphological modal markers according to dedicated
Guidelines (https://zenodo.org/record/6417878). 

A sample of the annotated corpus is now available and the modal passages can
be queried at this link: woposs.unine.ch/form.html

More annotated texts will be added in the following months. If you have any
doubt or question, we are happy to answer. 

WoPoss is a project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (no.
PP0001_176778). 
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Semantics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Latin (lat)





 



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