Replication Data for: Die Entwicklung des Definitartikels im Althochdeutschen. Eine kognitiv-linguistische Korpusuntersuchung

This data set is the appendix for Flick (2020): Die Entwicklung des Definitartikels im Althochdeutschen. Eine kognitiv-linguistische Korpusuntersuchung (Empirically oriented theoretical morphology and syntax 6). Berlin: Language Science Press. English abstract (the publication is in German): The German definite article originated from the adnominally used demonstrative determiner dër (‘this’). It is known that the categorical shift from demonstrative to definite article took place during the Old High German (OHG) period (750-1050 AD). The genuine demonstrative loses its demonstrative force and appears in contexts in which referents can be identified in dependently of the speech situation (the so called semantic definite contexts). In contrast to former investigations the present study examines this development by means of a broad corpus study. The data consists of the five largest texts of the OHG period which are accessible via the Old German Reference Corpus. The investigation takes a usage-based and constructional approach to language and shows how animacy interacts with the development of the definite article. The data set contains: (i) annotation guidelines for the following categories (particularly with regard to Old High German data): Animacy, individuation, semantic roles, different types of definiteness, nominal features of the noun phrase. (ii) corpus data which was extracted from a pre-version of the “Referenzkorpus Altdeutsch\" (0.1) plus all the annotations that were made during the investigation. (iii) R code that helped transforming, annotating and statistically analyzing the data. Please change to tree view to see the folder structure of the data set.

本数据集为Flick（2020）所著《古高地德语定冠词的演变：认知语言学语料库研究》（收录于《面向经验主义的理论形态学与语法》第6辑）的附录，该书由Language Science Press于柏林出版。本文（原著作以德语撰写）的英文摘要如下：德语定冠词源自从定语位置使用的指示限定词dër（意为“这/此”）。学界公认，从指示词到定冠词的范畴转变发生于古高地德语（Old High German，简称OHG）时期（公元750年至1050年）。原生指示词会丧失其指示语义，转而出现在无需依赖言语语境即可确定所指对象的语境中，即所谓语义定指语境。与既往研究不同，本研究通过大规模语料库分析考察了这一演变进程。本数据集的语料源自古德语参考语料库（Old German Reference Corpus）收录的古高地德语时期体量最大的五篇文本。本研究采用基于用法的构式语言学研究范式，揭示了有生性（animacy）与定冠词演变之间的互动机制。本数据集包含以下内容：(i) 针对以下类别的标注指南（尤其针对古高地德语语料）：有生性（animacy）、个体化程度、语义角色、不同类型的定指性、名词短语（noun phrase）的名词语法特征；(ii) 从"Referenzkorpus Altdeutsch"（版本0.1）预发布版本中提取的语料，以及本研究过程中完成的全部标注数据；(iii) 用于语料转换、标注及统计分析的R代码。请切换至树状视图以查看本数据集的文件夹结构。