B4 (The role of information structure in the development of word order regularities in Germanic)

Heliand

• modality: written, monologue, not parallel
• formats: EXMARaLDA-XML (annotation)
• source data: historic manuscript (9th century epic poem)
• languages: Old Saxon (OS)
• subcorpora / versions:
• Heliand 1, 4 and 5: complete text, status: final, digitalization, translation to Modern German, manually annotated with parts of speech, syntactic categories, grammatical functions, clause status, numbers of syllables (per constituent), alliteration, information status, topic/comment, position of phrase in sentence, definiteness, focus/background, focus-marker, comments on context, source (bibliography).

Muspilli

• modality: written, monologue, not parallel
• formats: EXMARaLDA-XML (annotation)
• source data: historic manuscript (epic poem)
• languages: Old High German (OHG)
• subcorpora / versions:
• Muspilli: complete text, status: work in progress, digitalization, translation to English, manually annotated with parts of speech, syntactic category, grammatical function, clause status, numbers of syllables (per constituent), information status, topic/comment, position of constituent in sentence, definiteness, focus/background, focus marker, comments, source (bibliography).

Otfrid

• modality: written, monologue, not parallel
• formats: EXMARaLDA-XML (annotation)
• source data: historic manuscript (2nd century epic poem, translation of Latin original)
• languages: Old High German (OHG)
• subcorpora / versions:
• Otfrid: complete text, status: work in progress, digitalization, translation to English, manually annotated with parts of speech, syntactic category, grammatical function, clause status, numbers of syllables (per constituent), information status, topic/comment, position of constituent in sentence, definiteness, focus/background, focus marker, comments, source (bibliography).

Tatian

• modality: spoken, dialogue, not parallel
• formats: wav (audio), EXMARaLDA-XML (annotation)
• source data: spontaneous dialogues
• languages: Hausa (HAU)
• subcorpora / versions:
• Tatian: Old High German lines differing from original (Latin) lines in word order, status: final, digitalization (Latin original and Old High German translation), manual annotation of parts of speech, syntactic constituents, grammatical functions, sentence type, number of syllables per constituent, definiteness of noun phrases, information status, topic/comment, focus/background, translations aligned at token level.