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H2020Individual fellowship2015–2017

SLUW · A computer-aided study of the Luwian (morpho-)syntax

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2015-06-01 → 2017-05-31
EU contribution
€180,277
Participants
1
Scheme
MSCA-IF-EF-ST

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Results in brief

A computer-aided study of the Luwian (morpho-)syntax

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie funded project SLUW, “A computer-aided study of the Luwian (morpho)-syntax, is carried out at the University of Verona, Italy, from June 2015 to May 2017. It consists in a study of the syntax of the Luwian language, based on the phrase-structure annotation of a selection of sentences from the Luwian corpora (both cuneiform and hieroglyphic). Phrase structure annotation is based on a modified and adapted tagging system derived from the Penn Treebank tagset for the syntactic annotation of English, and it is aimed at providing a theory-free representation of the constituency structure of a significant part of the sentences attested in the Luwian corpus, to be employed for the development of a syntactic theory of the language. Luwian, (16th to 8th centuries BCE) is the second largest member of the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European (or Indo-Hittite) language family, and possibly one of the most archaic ones from several phonological, morphological and syntactic perspectives. In recent years, grammatical studies of the Anatolian languages have flourished, but they tended to be integrated in traditional grammatical frameworks. The project SLUW provides a first comprehensive syntactic assessment of an important language of the Ancient Anatolian group.

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Project objective

The present project aims at analysing the morpho-syntactical features of the Luwian language working on the available texts and combining a standard linguistic analysis with the implementation of a statistical analysis of the annotated corpus. By glossing the morpho-syntactical structure of a large selection of both cuneiform and hieroglyphic inscriptions using a protocol derived from and compatible with the Penn Treebank Project and the Leiden Glossing Rules, the research will proceed by isolating, mapping and modelling the regular as well as the anomalous features of the morpho-syntax of one of the most important and still largely unexplored languages of the ancient Anatolian branch of Indo-European. The analysis will also identify and focus on the co-dependant syntactical, morphological, semantic and stylistic phenomena present in the corpus (e.g. syntactic triggering of stylistic features, dislocations, topicalisations). The results of the present research will provide the world of the Indo-European studies with the first comprehensive study ever dedicated to morpho-syntax of the Luwian language.

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Participants

  • UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI VERONA · VeronaCoordinatorItaly

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