Corpus-based Studies of Lesser-described Languages
The CorpAfroAs corpus of spoken AfroAsiatic languages
Editors
This volume presents new findings based on the analysis of spoken corpora in thirteen different Afro-Asiatic languages – a unique endeavor in the domain of lesser-described languages. It will be of interest to corpus linguists, general linguists, typologists, and linguists specializing in Afro-Asiatic languages. In addition to the rarity of corpus studies based on endangered and lesser-described languages, the volume is remarkable due to its focus on the role of prosody in interaction with several other phenomena, including code-switching and borrowing. Phonology, syntax, and information structure are explored, and the issue of the elaboration of strategies for the typological comparison of corpora is addressed in several papers. The volume also contains a presentation of software development conducted within the scope of the CorpAfroAs project and based upon the widely used ELAN. The sound-indexed, and morphosyntactically-annotated corpora, with their OLAC metadata and several other deliverables can be accessed and searched at http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/scl.68.website.
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 68] 2015. vi, 338 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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PrefaceAmina Mettouchi, Martine Vanhove and Dominique Caubet | pp. 1–9
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Part 1: Phonetics, phonology and prosody
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Representation of speech in CorpAfroAs: Transcriptional strategies and prosodic unitsShlomo Izre'el and Amina Mettouchi | pp. 13–41
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Tone and intonationBernard Caron | pp. 43–60
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Part 2: Interfacing prosody, information structure and syntax
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The intonation of topic and focus: Zaar (Nigeria), Tamasheq (Niger), Juba Arabic (South Sudan) and Tripoli Arabic (Libya)Bernard Caron, Cécile Lux, Stefano Manfredi and Christophe Pereira | pp. 63–115
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Quotative constructions and prosody in some Afroasiatic languages: Towards a typologyIl-Il Yatziv-Malibert and Martine Vanhove | pp. 117–169
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Part 3: Cross-linguistic comparability
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Glossing in Semitic languages: A comparison of Moroccan Arabic and Modern HebrewAngeles Vicente, Il-Il Yatziv-Malibert and Alexandrine Barontini | pp. 173–206
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From the Leipzig Glossing Rules to the GE and RX linesBernard Comrie | pp. 207–219
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Cross-linguistic comparability in CorpAfroAsAmina Mettouchi, Graziano Savà and Mauro Tosco | pp. 221–255
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Functional domains and cross-linguistic comparabilityZygmunt Frajzyngier and Amina Mettouchi | pp. 257–279
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Part 4: Language contact
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Language contact, borrowing and codeswitchingStefano Manfredi, Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle and Mauro Tosco | pp. 283–308
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Part 5: Information technology
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ELAN-CorpA: Lexicon-aided annotation in ELANChristian Chanard | pp. 311–332
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Language index | pp. 333–334
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Subject index | pp. 335–339
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Izre'el, Shlomo
2020. Chapter 3. Applying criteria of spontaneous Hebrew speech segmentation to English. In In Search of Basic Units of Spoken Language [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 94], ► pp. 337 ff.
Caron, Bernard
2017. Chapter 6. Comparison, similarity and simulation in Zaar, a Chadic language of Nigeria. In Similative and Equative Constructions [Typological Studies in Language, 117], ► pp. 167 ff.
Caron, Bernard
2018. Chapter 6. Macrosyntactic corpus annotation. In Information Structure in Lesser-described Languages [Studies in Language Companion Series, 199], ► pp. 157 ff.
Mettouchi, Amina, Martine Vanhove & Dominique Caubet
2015. Preface. In Corpus-based Studies of Lesser-described Languages [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 68],
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFX: Computational linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General