Towards the description of contexts for dual
number on the material of the New Testament translations
corpus
DOI:10.30842/alp2306573719375110
Vrubel D. D., Pasko L. I. K opisaniyu
kontekstov dlya grammemy dvoystvennogo chisla na materiale korpusa
perevodov Novogo Zaveta. Acta Linguistica Petropolitana.
75–110.
Parallel text corpora constitute a useful instrument for
typological research providing aligned texts in multiple languages.
Our aim was to create a database of contexts that might be used for
typological research of dual number which has attracted the
interest of many typologists since long ago. Though found in many
genetically distant languages, dual faces a considerable number of
constraints and can only appear in languages with a plural number
grammeme. The contexts for the database were taken from the
parallel corpus of the New Testament (Gospel of Mark and Gospel of
Luke) translations from Ancient Greek to Latin, English, Spanish,
Russian, Slovenian and Old Church Slavonic. The resulting database
includes contexts where dual number (if it exists in a given
language) may be expressed in nouns, predicates, adjectives or
pronouns in consistence with the rules of number agreement or
concord. Each context was anntated for several parameters relevant
to the dual number. A parameter was considered relevant if it could
influence the expression of dual number in any way. For example, in
some languages with dual number, only nominals standing for objects
that naturally come in pairs can have a dual form, while in others
these can only occur in the plural. Altogether, eleven parameters
were chosen for the database: (1) a noun phrase or a coordinate
structure is used (‘SINGLE/COORD’); presence of (2) nouns (‘N’) or
(3) pronouns (‘PN’) in the phrase; inclusion of (4) the speaker
(‘P-SPEAK’) or (5) the addressee (‘P-ADDR’); (6) presence of a
numeral in the phrase (‘NUM’); (7) the taxonomic class of the noun
(‘TAXONOMY’); (8) objects naturally come in pairs (‘PAIR’); (9)
thematic roles (‘THEMATIC ROLE’); (10) tense (‘TENSE’); and (11)
modality (‘IMP’). In this paper, we present a detailed description
of the created database and discuss certain facts concerning the
expression of dual number in languages with this grammeme
(Slovenian and Old Church Slavonic).
Keywords
dual number, number, coordination, typology,
parallel corpus, Old Church Slavonic, English, Slovenian, Spanish,
Ancient Greek, Latin, Russian
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Keywords
dual number, number, coordination, typology,
parallel corpus, Old Church Slavonic, English, Slovenian, Spanish,
Ancient Greek, Latin, Russian
