The structuralist tradition meets empirical data: Corpus data enhancing the Czech Internet Language Reference Book

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11210/23:10465205

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/word.2023.0230" target="_blank" >https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/word.2023.0230</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/word.2023.0230" target="_blank" >10.3366/word.2023.0230</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The structuralist tradition meets empirical data: Corpus data enhancing the Czech Internet Language Reference Book

Original language description

This paper demonstrates how the corpus grammar tool GramatiKat can be used to improve and refine morphological information in the Internet Language Reference Book (ILRB), which presents complete declension paradigms for 45,632 standard Czech nouns. The paradigm tables are based mainly on morphological types, following structuralist conceptions of language as a fully articulated system. The paper discusses how to update the ILRB and provide users with empirically based grammatical information for individual word forms in each cell of the paradigm. All noun lemmas have been investigated using the GramatiKat tool for research into grammatical categories in Czech. The tool observes the distribution of word forms of a particular lexeme in comparison with the standard distribution across the whole word class. It is capable of identifying nouns that have an unusually high occurrence of a certain word form, as well as nouns with unattested word forms. GramatiKat is based on the data from two corpora of Czech written texts, SYN2015 and SYN2020 (200 million word tokens). The paper investigates the relationship between defectiveness and overabundance on one side and language variability and potentiality on the other. Based on the unique combination of data from the ILRB and GramatiKat, the paper suggests how information about unusually frequent or overabundant word forms as well as unattested ones should be pointed out, so that ILRB provides the user with accurate, empirically based data.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60203 - Linguistics

Project

<a href="/en/project/LM2023044" target="_blank" >LM2023044: Czech National Corpus</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Word Structure

ISSN

1750-1245

e-ISSN

1755-2036

Volume of the periodical

16

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2/3

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

25

Pages from-to

233-257

UT code for WoS article

001099547400005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85179302875