Definite referential null objects in Ancient Greek

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“…For example, in sentence (1) below, we see that "daughter" is the object of both ἀπατήσας "deceive, seduce" and ἐξαγαγὼν "lead away" as well as the main predicate κρύπτει "hide" simultaneously. In Ancient Greek, it frequently happens that a predicate and a dependent participial clause share the same object (see Luraghi 2003 for more details). However, in the annotation only one head can be selected.…”

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Creating a large-scale diachronic corpus resource: Automated parsing in the Greek papyri (and beyond)

Keersmaekers

Hal

2023

Nat. Lang. Eng.

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This paper explores how to syntactically parse Ancient Greek texts automatically and maps ways of fruitfully employing the results of such an automated analysis. Special attention is given to documentary papyrus texts, a large diachronic corpus of non-literary Greek, which presents a unique set of challenges to tackle. By making use of the Stanford Graph-Based Neural Dependency Parser, we show that through careful curation of the parsing data and several manipulation strategies, it is possible to achieve an Labeled Attachment Score of about 0.85 for this corpus. We also explain how the data can be converted back to its original (Ancient Greek Dependency Treebanks) format. We describe the results of several tests we have carried out to improve parsing results, with special attention paid to the impact of the annotation format on parser achievements. In addition, we offer a detailed qualitative analysis of the remaining errors, including possible ways to solve them. Moreover, the paper gives an overview of the valorisation possibilities of an automatically annotated corpus of Ancient Greek texts in the fields of linguistics, language education and humanities studies in general. The concluding section critically analyses the remaining difficulties and outlines avenues to further improve the parsing quality and the ensuing practical applications.

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Section: Annotation Problemsmentioning

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Creating a large-scale diachronic corpus resource: Automated parsing in the Greek papyri (and beyond)

Keersmaekers

Hal

2023

Nat. Lang. Eng.

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The Homeric Dependency Lexicon

Zanchi

2021

J. Greek Linguist.

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This paper presents the Homeric Dependency Lexicon (HoDeL), a new resource with a user-friendly interface facilitating the study of Homeric verbs and dependents. HoDeL was induced from the analytical layer of AGDT 2.0, extracting all dependents tagged as SBJ, OBJ, PNOM, and OCOMP with a set of SQL queries. The paper illustrates HoDeL functionalities and shows how they can be employed by researchers to answer specific research questions about the Homeric language. Introducing the uses of HoDeL offers the opportunity to reexamine some crucial, though frequently underestimated, methodological challenges concerning annotated corpora and resources derived from them that relate to the linguistic theories underlying annotations and error propagation. It is argued that the careful documentation of how linguistic resources were created, what data they contain, and how they can be queried through their dedicated interfaces is essential to lay the groundwork for users’ investigations.

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Reciprocal constructions in Homeric Greek: A typological and corpus-based approach

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Zanchi

2020

Folia Linguistica

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Ancient Greek features a wide array of means to encode reciprocity. Even though reference grammars do mention most of these strategies, they have not been brought together and compared in a systematic way so far. In this paper, we provide a thorough corpus-based description of the three most widespread reciprocal markers in Homeric Greek: the pronoun allḗlōn, the middle voice, and the use of preverbs. Our analysis is couched within current descriptive models of reciprocal constructions developed in linguistic typology. As we argue, Homeric Greek offers a remarkably complex picture, whereby these strategies synchronically cover different semantic and syntactic sub-domains of reciprocity, and thus partly stand in complementary distribution. Already in Homer, the pronoun allḗlōn is the most productive marker of reciprocal situations, with the middle voice and preverbs playing a more limited role. By adopting a diachronic perspective, we also show that this distribution can partly be explained as the result of the different historical sources of each construction. Moreover, once properly scrutinized, the facts of Homeric Greek provide interesting cues as to the developments of reciprocal constructions in later stages of Greek.

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Definite referential null objects in Ancient Greek

Cited by 4 publications

References 10 publications

Creating a large-scale diachronic corpus resource: Automated parsing in the Greek papyri (and beyond)

Creating a large-scale diachronic corpus resource: Automated parsing in the Greek papyri (and beyond)

The Homeric Dependency Lexicon

Reciprocal constructions in Homeric Greek: A typological and corpus-based approach

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