36.534, FYI: (Post)classical and medieval Greek multi-word expressions: Data, methodology, and analysis

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Subject: 36.534, FYI: (Post)classical and medieval Greek multi-word expressions: Data, methodology, and analysis

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Date: 09-Feb-2025
From: Victoria Beatrix Fendel [victoria.fendel at classics.ox.ac.uk]
Subject: (Post)classical and medieval Greek multi-word expressions: Data, methodology, and analysis

CALL FOR CHAPTERS
(Post)classical and medieval Greek multi-word expressions: Data,
methodology, and analysis
Phrases such as pay attention, in spite of, and United Kingdom are
multi-word expressions. The signifier is complex but the signified is
not, i.e. pay attention is a verb phrase, in spite of a preposition,
and United Kingdom a noun phrase. The Ancient Greek working group
annotates these in classical literary Attic oratory, historiography,
and philosophical prose using the PARSEME 1.3 guidelines (see
https://parsemefr.lis-lab.fr/parseme-st-guidelines/1.3/index.php?page=home).
The PARSEME 1.3 guidelines define comparative concepts for verbal
multi-word expressions. A comparative concept is a concept
‘specifically designed for the purpose of comparison’ and ‘independent
of descriptive categories’ (Haspelmath 2010: 664; Savary et al. 2018:
96; Hoffmann 2023: 29–31; Schafroth 2020). A descriptive category is a
category that is used to describe a language and is language-specific
(Haspelmath 2010: 664). The Ancient Greek working group has translated
the comparative concepts of the PARSEME guidelines into descriptive
categories for classical literary Attic historiography, oratory, and
philosophical prose. Furthermore, we push the boundaries as to what
types of structures should perhaps be included in future but are not
currently (see www.ancientgreekmwe.com).
The proposed volume has three focal areas:
[Data] Multi-word expressions in datasets representing different
genres, registers, and styles vis-à-vis the PARSEME Ancient Greek
corpus (both other Greek corpora and other language corpora) (Fendel
2024)
[Methodology] Comparative concept vs. descriptive category and the
PARSEME 1.3 guidelines for (post)classical Greek
[Analysis] Interfaces and blurry lines between categories especially
with regard to the working group’s NotMWE category
While the obvious disciplines addressed are perhaps Linguistics
(corpus linguistics), Classics (philology), and Computer science
(natural language processing), we encourage creative minds to surprise
us. We explicitly welcome proposals from those that are not part of
either the UniDive COST action or the PARSEME Ancient Greek working
group.
We are especially interested in under-represented data types such as
papyrological and epigraphic sources and the role multi-word
expressions play in these along with the challenges for identification
and/or discovery.
We do not expect everyone to apply a computational approach but rather
would like to see approaches that are data-appropriate. If you are
building a tool or conversely sitting on the theoretical side of
things, we ask that there is a clear (direct or comparative)
application to the PARSEME data and methodology.
Abstracts of max. 350 words (excluding bibliography) with author-date
references (but no page numbers) and a list of references providing a
clear indication of the methodology, analysis, and interpretation as
well as the relevance to any of the three focal areas should be sent
to the team leader under victoria.fendel at classics.ox.ac.uk.
Deadline for abstracts: 14 February 2025
Notification of outcome: by 28 February 2025
(Tentative) submission deadline for full drafts: 31 July 2025 (with
marginal flexibility if agreed with the editor in advance)
References
Fendel, Victoria (ed.). 2024. Support-verb constructions in the
corpora of Greek: Between lexicon and grammar? (Phraseology and
Multiword Expressions 7). Berlin: Language Science Press.
Haspelmath, Martin. 2010. Comparative concepts and descriptive
categories in crosslinguistic studies. Language 86(3). 663–687.
Hoffmann, Roland. 2023. Latin support-verb constructions: a view from
language typology. In José Miguel Baños, María Dolores Jiménez López,
María Jiménez Martínez & Cristina Tur (eds.), Collocations in
theoretical and applied linguistics: from classical languages to
Romance languages, 21–56. Madrid: SEEC.
Savary, Agata, Marie Candito, Verginica Mititelu, Eduard Bejček,
Fabienne Cap, Slavomír Čéplö, Silvio Cordeiro, et al. 2018. PARSEME
multilingual corpus of verbal multiword expressions. In Stella
Markantonatou, Carlos Ramisch, Agata Savary & Veronika Vincze (eds.),
Multiword expressions at length and in depth: Extended papers from the
MWE 2017 workshop, 87–147. Berlin: Language Science Press.
Schafroth, Elmar. 2020. Überlegungen zu Funktionsverbgefügen aus
sprachvergleichender Sicht. In Sabine De Knop & Manon Hermann (eds.),
Funktionsverbgefügen im Fokus: Theoretische, didaktische und
kontrastive Perspektiven, 179–210. Berlin; Boston: Mouton De Gruyter.

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Ancient Greek (to 1453) (grc)
                     Classical Sanskrit (cls)
                     Latin (lat)

Language Family(ies): Indo-European

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