Article published in:
Multilingual Corpora and Multilingual Corpus AnalysisEdited by Thomas Schmidt and Kai Wörner
[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism 14] 2012
► pp. 245–271
Annotating ambiguity
Insights from a corpus-based study on syntactic change in Old Swedish
The synchronic and diachronic variability of historical texts poses substantial difficulties in the annotation and analysis of historical corpora. One main problem is that ongoing language change and particularly grammaticalisation phenomena lead to syntactic ambiguity. This contribution shows how such issues are dealt with in the TEI-based Hamburg Corpus of Old Swedish with Syntactic Annotation (HaCOSSA). The focus is on the development of strictly operational, explicitly defined, largely theory-neutral, language-specific and diachronically broad annotation categories.
Published online: 15 November 2012
https://doi.org/10.1075/hsm.14.17hod
https://doi.org/10.1075/hsm.14.17hod
