SunoikisisDC Summer 2021 Session 4

Sunoikisis Digital Classics, Summer 2021

Session 4. Linguistic Annotations of Greek and Latin Inscriptions

Thursday May 6, 17:15-18:45 CEST

Convenors: Francesca Dell'Oro (University of Neuchâtel)

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/7jvWi_IevC0

Slides:

Session outline

The theme of this session is linguistic annotation of inscriptions from parts of speech to semantics/pragmatics. The session consists of three main parts, illustrating two ways of annotating inscriptions from a linguistic point of view – i.e. manually and automatically – and how the linguistic data of an annotated inscriptional corpus can be searched and explored.

1. The 'Euboean inscriptions of Sicily' treebank;
2. The WoPoss modality annotation model applied to inscriptions;
3. Exploring an annotated inscriptional corpus.

Seminar readings

• F. Dell’Oro & G.G.A. Celano, 'Epigraphic treebanks : some considerations from a work in progress', FirstDrafts@Classics – Harvard’s CHS, 2019: https://chs.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/DellOroCelano_4.pdf
• I. De Felice, G. Marotta & M. Donati, “CLaSSES: a New Digital Resource for Latin Epigraphy”, IJCoL [Online], 1-1 | 2015. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/ijcol.331

Further Reading

• M. Berti (dir.), Digital Marmor Parium: http://www.digitalmarmorparium.org/
• F. Dell’Oro, What Role for Inscriptions in the Study of Syntax and Syntactic Change in the Old Indo-European Languages? The Pros and Cons of an Integration of Epigraphic Corpora, in C. Viti, Perspectives on Historical Syntax, Amsterdam, Benjamins 2015: 271–289. https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.169.11del https://www.academia.edu/13253650/What_Role_for_Inscriptions_in_the_Study_of_Syntax_and_Syntactic_Change_in_the_Old_Indo_European_Languages_The_Pros_and_Cons_of_an_Integration_of_Epigraphic_Corpora

Other resources

Exercise

Try to annotate an inscription in Arethusa and then to analyse the semantic/pragmatic value of the modal markers in it. A selection of inscriptions will follow soon.