Abstract
Indo-European preverbs are uninflected morphemes attaching to verbs and modifying their meaning. In Early Vedic and Homeric Greek, these morphemes held ambiguous morphosyntactic status raising issues for syntactic annotation. This paper focuses on the annotation of preverbs in so-called “absolute” position in two Universal Dependencies treebanks. This issue is related to the broader topic of how to annotate ellipsis in Universal Dependencies. After discussing some of the current annotations, we propose a new scheme that better accounts for the variety of absolute constructions.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.lt4hala-1.4
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages
- Month:
- June
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Marseille, France
- Venue:
- LT4HALA
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association
- Note:
- Pages:
- 26–30
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.lt4hala-1.4
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Luca Brigada Villa, Erica Biagetti, and Chiara Zanchi. 2022. Annotating “Absolute” Preverbs in the Homeric and Vedic Treebanks. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages, pages 26–30, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
- Cite (Informal):
- Annotating “Absolute” Preverbs in the Homeric and Vedic Treebanks (Brigada Villa et al., LT4HALA 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/auto-file-uploads/2022.lt4hala-1.4.pdf
- Code
- unipv-larl/preverbs