The Middle Voice in Baltic

Holvoet, Axel

doi:10.1075/vargreb.5

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“…Although nowadays a 10 million balanced corpus is not considered as a large corpus, it is useful for many Latvian language studies [22]. The success of LVK2018 has helped to secure a new project which is fully dedicated to the development of a new 100 million balanced corpus of contemporary Latvian.…”

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Lessons Learned from Creating a Balanced Corpus from Online Data

Darģis¹,

Levāne-Petrova²,

Poikāns³

2020

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

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This paper describes lessons learned from developing the most recent Balanced Corpus of Modern Latvian (LVK2018) from various online sources. Most of the new corpora are created from data obtained from various text holders, which requires cooperation agreements with each of the text holders. Reaching these cooperation agreements is a difficult and time consuming task and may not be necessary if the resource to be created is not of hundred millions of size. Although there are many different resources available on the Internet today for a particular language, finding viable online resources to create a balanced corpus is still a challenging task. Developing a balanced corpus from various online sources does not require agreements with text holders, but it presents many more technical challenges, including text extraction, cleaning and validation.

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Lessons Learned from Creating a Balanced Corpus from Online Data

Darģis¹,

Levāne-Petrova²,

Poikāns³

2020

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

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“…Holvoet (2020) uses the term 'middle voice' as a cover term for the grammatical uses of reflexives. There are different types and subtypes of middles in Lithuanian: anticausative, deobjective, facilitative, etc.9Haspelmath (2011) suggests that the Lithuanian -si-could be considered as a clitic Korostenskiene (2017).…”

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Lithuanian reflexive-based impersonals with accusative objects

Spraunienė

Žeimantienė

2021

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This paper surveys Lithuanian impersonal constructions with predicative present passive participles containing non-promoted accusative objects. It is shown that the construction, hitherto considered very rare, is well-attested and productive with one verb class, namely, transitive reflexives. In terms of semantics, transitive reflexives in Lithuanian may be classified as autobenefactives. Autobenefactive reflexives do not exhibit a change in argument structure with respect to their non-reflexive counterparts. In the case of autobenefactives, the morpheme -si- attached to the verb adds the meaning that the subject, which mostly has the semantic role of an agent, benefits from the event expressed by the predicate. On the basis of corpus data, we have analysed how widespread impersonal constructions with accusative objects are within the domain of transitive reflexives and which pattern—the accusative or the nominative—is dominant when both are attested. Lastly, we briefly discuss the temporal-aspectual meaning of reflexive-based impersonals as well as the referential properties of implied agents

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Balto-Slavic

Pronk¹

2022

The Indo-European Language Family

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The Middle Voice in Baltic

Cited by 30 publications

References 61 publications

Lessons Learned from Creating a Balanced Corpus from Online Data

Lessons Learned from Creating a Balanced Corpus from Online Data

Lithuanian reflexive-based impersonals with accusative objects

Balto-Slavic

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