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Specyfika staropolszczyzny a anotacja gramatyczna
Old Polish Language Specificity and Grammatical Annotation

On the Need for New Category Values

Author(s): Dorota Rojszczak-Robińska , Magdalena Wismont, Kinga Zalejarz, Aleksandra Deskur, Ewa Nowak-Pasterska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Historical Linguistics
Published by: KSIĘGARNIA AKADEMICKA Sp. z o.o.
Keywords: grammatical annotation; grammatical categories; medieval Polish language; Old Polish New Testament apocrypha

Summary/Abstract: The paper is focused on the grammatical annotation of Old Polish texts. The authors discuss the necessity to use unusual grammatical category values: 0 and X. It occurs when any of the values is impossible to determine (e.g. due to damage to the manuscript or insufficient syntactic/semantic context) or a word takes no value in a given category (e.g. an unstated adjective). The article presents factors influencing the choice of 0 and X values. It shows those grammatical classes and categories in whose annotation the use of these values has been highly significant.

  • Issue Year: 18/2023
  • Issue No: 35
  • Page Range: 99-111
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish