Corpus of the Epigraphy of the Italian Peninsula in the 1st Millennium BCE (CEIPoM)

Pitts, Reuben J.

doi:10.5334/johd.65

“…To examine the evolution of coordination strategies in Messapic, it is useful first to aggregate all instances of coordination attested in the corpus. For this purpose, an initial dataset was created using the morphological information for Messapic in the Corpus of the Epigraphy of the Italian Peninsula in the 1st Millennium bce (CEIPoM) database, which contains linguistic information on the epigraphic corpora of a range of languages spoken in ancient Italy (Pitts 2022), and then manually rechecked against the documentation of the published Messapic texts. Fortunately, the small size of the corpus which makes this quality check imperative at same time also makes it feasible, and CEIPoM did miss a small number of possible coordinators in obscure contexts.…”

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Coordination strategies in Messapic

Pitts

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2022

Indo-Eur. Linguist.

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Messapic, like many ancient Indo-European languages, shows evidence for the existence of more than one coordinating conjunction. Alongside an inherited Indo-European clitic =ti, comparable to Lat. =que or Gk. =τε, Messapic has also grammaticalised an additional coordinator anda from a lexical source. Although the two conjunctions are found in some strikingly similar contexts, this paper argues that they also show noteworthy functional differences, which can plausibly be contextualised against a broader cross-linguistic understanding of how novel coordinators grammaticalise. In this way, the typological study of coordination has the potential to contribute further insights into this fascinating—and as yet insufficiently understood—epigraphic language.

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Describing Inscriptions of Ancient Italy. The ItAnt Project and Its Information Encoding Process

Murano

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Quochi

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Grosso

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et al. 2023

J. Comput. Cult. Herit.

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This paper discusses the challenges addressed in the digital scholarly encoding of the fragmentary texts of the languages of Ancient Italy according to the TEI/EpiDoc Guidelines in XML format. It describes the solutions and customisations that have been adopted for dealing with the peculiarities of our epigraphical documentation and with the formalisation of epigraphical information deemed interesting for data retrieval in a historical linguistic perspective. The making of a digital corpus consisting of new critical editions of selected inscriptions is a work carried out in the context of the project ”Languages and Cultures of Ancient Italy. Historical Linguistics and Digital Models”, which aims to investigate the languages of Ancient Italy by combining the traditional methods, proper to historical linguistics, with methods and technology proper to the digital humanities and computational lexicography. More specifically, the purpose of the project is to create a set of interrelated digital language resources which comprise: 1) a digital corpus of texts editions; 2) a computational lexicon compliant with the Web Semantic requirements; 3) a relevant bibliographic reference dataset encoded according to the FRBRoo/LRMoo specifications. Additionally, selected textual data and scientific interpretations will be encoded using CIDOC CRM and its extensions, namely CRMtex and CRMinf. The present contribution thus tackles one of the main aspects of the project, and proposes significant innovations in the encoding of critical editions for epigraphic texts of fragmentary languages, which will hopefully foster future interoperability and integration with other external datasets, a paramount concern of the project.

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Coordination strategies in Messapic

Pitts

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2022

Indo-Eur. Linguist.

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Messapic, like many ancient Indo-European languages, shows evidence for the existence of more than one coordinating conjunction. Alongside an inherited Indo-European clitic =ti, comparable to Lat. =que or Gk. =τε, Messapic has also grammaticalised an additional coordinator anda from a lexical source. Although the two conjunctions are found in some strikingly similar contexts, this paper argues that they also show noteworthy functional differences, which can plausibly be contextualised against a broader cross-linguistic understanding of how novel coordinators grammaticalise. In this way, the typological study of coordination has the potential to contribute further insights into this fascinating—and as yet insufficiently understood—epigraphic language.

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Corpus of the Epigraphy of the Italian Peninsula in the 1st Millennium BCE (CEIPoM)

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Coordination strategies in Messapic

Coordination strategies in Messapic

Describing Inscriptions of Ancient Italy. The ItAnt Project and Its Information Encoding Process

Coordination strategies in Messapic

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