• Funding: FWF (ORD 66-VO)

  • Project duration: 15.09.2017 to 14.09.2020

The aim of this cooperation project between the Institute of Romance Studies and the ZIM (Center for Information Modelling in the Humanities) was to create the open access database "Adjective-Adverb Interfaces in Romance" according to the standards of CLARIN-ERIC. This makes linguistic evidence on the phenomenon of adjective-adverbs in Romance languages generally accessible and usable via an annotated and lemmatized online corpus. In the spirit of open access, the language data on which scientific publications on the topic are based could thus be made comprehensible and different data sets from different Romance languages could be linked together.

The project is the first time that scientific language data on Romance adjective adverbs has been recorded in accordance with the norms and standards of CLARIN ERIC(Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure / European Research Infrastructure Consortium for Language Resources) and technically processed by ZIM.

The entire Romance corpus comprises several sub-corpora of the individual Romance languages: French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Romanian. On the one hand, data from theDictionnaire historique de l'adjectif-adverbe and the already published SH3 chapter Los adjetivos adverbiales (Hummel 2014) will be made available. On the other hand, new data will also be collected by the project team, including in cooperation with international project partners: Adrian Chircu (University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania), Adam Ledgeway (University of Cambridge, UK - (South) Italian data) and the "Discurso & Gramática" group (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). In the course of the project, a cross-linguistically applicable model for the classification and annotation of adjective-adverbs and related phenomena, such as adverbial prepositional phrases, will be developed, which will also allow the future incorporation of new data sets and corpora. The search mask of the corpus allows cross-linguistic searches for the annotated categories.

Link to the corpus homepage: http://gams.uni-graz.at/context:aaif