Toward a Universal Dependencies Treebank of Old English: Representing the Morphological Relatedness of Un-Derivatives
This article deals with one of the aspects involved in the compilation of a treebank of Old English within the framework of Universal Dependencies. More specifically, this study addresses the question of how to account for the remarkable degree of Old English morphological relatedness in a type of t...
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| description | This article deals with one of the aspects involved in the compilation of a treebank of Old English within the framework of Universal Dependencies. More specifically, this study addresses the question of how to account for the remarkable degree of Old English morphological relatedness in a type of treebank designed to stress syntactic similarities across languages. The solution proposed and assessed in this study is the addition of an extra field of annotation for morphological relatedness. The data of this analysis comprise 1106 derivatives attaching the prefix <i>un</i>-. Out of these, there are around 80 morphologically complex nouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs whose derivation cannot be described gradually, 33 of which are unique formations or <i>hapax legomena</i> according to the attestations provided by the <i>Dictionary of Old English Corpus.</i> The main conclusion is that the specification of short-distance and long-distance morphological relatedness provides the Old English treebank with a paradigmatic dimension that can be particularly relevant for languages with relatively generalised and transparent derivational morphology. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-03a0cec8b7d74e158bf9ccd3c5dfa9be2024-03-27T13:50:55ZengMDPI AGLanguages2226-471X2024-02-01937610.3390/languages9030076Toward a Universal Dependencies Treebank of Old English: Representing the Morphological Relatedness of Un-DerivativesJavier Martín Arista0Department of Modern Languages, Faculty of Humanities and Education, University of La Rioja, 26006 Logroño, SpainThis article deals with one of the aspects involved in the compilation of a treebank of Old English within the framework of Universal Dependencies. More specifically, this study addresses the question of how to account for the remarkable degree of Old English morphological relatedness in a type of treebank designed to stress syntactic similarities across languages. The solution proposed and assessed in this study is the addition of an extra field of annotation for morphological relatedness. The data of this analysis comprise 1106 derivatives attaching the prefix <i>un</i>-. Out of these, there are around 80 morphologically complex nouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs whose derivation cannot be described gradually, 33 of which are unique formations or <i>hapax legomena</i> according to the attestations provided by the <i>Dictionary of Old English Corpus.</i> The main conclusion is that the specification of short-distance and long-distance morphological relatedness provides the Old English treebank with a paradigmatic dimension that can be particularly relevant for languages with relatively generalised and transparent derivational morphology.https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/9/3/76Old Englishcorpus linguisticscomputational linguisticsUniversal Dependencies |
| spellingShingle | Javier Martín Arista Toward a Universal Dependencies Treebank of Old English: Representing the Morphological Relatedness of Un-Derivatives Languages Old English corpus linguistics computational linguistics Universal Dependencies |
| title | Toward a Universal Dependencies Treebank of Old English: Representing the Morphological Relatedness of Un-Derivatives |
| title_full | Toward a Universal Dependencies Treebank of Old English: Representing the Morphological Relatedness of Un-Derivatives |
| title_fullStr | Toward a Universal Dependencies Treebank of Old English: Representing the Morphological Relatedness of Un-Derivatives |
| title_full_unstemmed | Toward a Universal Dependencies Treebank of Old English: Representing the Morphological Relatedness of Un-Derivatives |
| title_short | Toward a Universal Dependencies Treebank of Old English: Representing the Morphological Relatedness of Un-Derivatives |
| title_sort | toward a universal dependencies treebank of old english representing the morphological relatedness of un derivatives |
| topic | Old English corpus linguistics computational linguistics Universal Dependencies |
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