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    New insights into the typology of motion in the history of French: evidence from the manner verb lexicon
    (2024) Piccione, Mariapaola; Rainsford, Thomas
    Our study aims to investigate the Talmyan typology of motion encoding in the history of French focusing on testing Slobin’s (1997, 2004) hypothesis stating that the proportion of manner verbs is greater in s-framed languages and Schøsler’s (2008) hypothesis stating that the difference between s-framed and v-framed languages is to be found in the use of manner verbs and that the nature of the texts might play a role. Our study is methodologically innovative since it tests these hypotheses against a very large dataset using tailored measures. Our findings show an increase in manner saliency (as defined in Slobin 1997, 2004), contrary to what we would expect. This increase in the proportion of manner verbs might be explained by a more general increase in the overall lexical diversity of motion expression in French. Moreover, our results support Schøsler’s hypothesis, as textual factors affect the use of manner verbs.
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    Old Gallo-Romance (OGR) Corpus : annotation phonologique et métrique des plus anciens textes gallo-romans
    (2022) Rainsford, Thomas
    The goal of the Old Gallo-Romance (OGR) Corpus is to unite in a single corpus all Gallo-Romance texts copied before 1130 in a form as faithful as possible to the base manuscript and annotated in depth. In particular, the corpus contains both phonological and metrical layers of annotation. In this article, we present the main innovations implemented in the OGR corpus, with special focus on the creation of a technical infrastructure which assists in the creation of this annotation and exports it in an XML format.
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    Metrical annotation for a verse treebank
    (2014) Rainsford, Thomas; Scrivner, Olga
    We present a methodology for enriching treebanks containing verse texts with metrical annotation, and present a pilot corpus containing one Old Occitan text. Metrical annotation is based on syllable tokens, and is generated semi-automatically using two algorithms, one to divide word tokens into syllables, and a second to mark the position of each syllable in the line. Syntactic and metrical annotation is combined in a single multi-layered ANNIS corpus. Three initial findings based on the pilot corpus illustrate the close relation between syntactic and metrical structure, and hence the value of enriching treebanks in this way.
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    De-prefixed spatial Ps in medieval French
    (2019) Rainsford, Thomas
    We examine a series of medieval French spatial Ps with de- prefixes (de-forms; e.g. dessus, dedans), showing that they display a combination of preposition-, adverb- and noun-like syntactic properties which distinguish them from their corresponding base forms (e.g. sus, ens). We argue that these properties can best be accounted for by considering de-forms to be modifiers of a null PLACE noun. Finally, we suggest that during the medieval period, de-forms are reanalysed as nouns, which causes wide-ranging changes in their distribution, including the development of complex prepositions such as au-dessus de.
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    Über die Grenzen narrativer Vermittlung von Literaturgeschichte im Deutschunterricht : Anmerkungen aus strukturalistischer Perspektive
    (2016) Janle, Frank
    Der auf dem Deutschen Germanistentag 2016 in Bayreuth gehaltene Vortrag setzt sich mit der Tatsache auseinander, dass es in der deutschen Literaturwissenschaft strukturalistische Defizite gibt. Daran anknüpfend versucht er die Frage zu beantworten, welche Konsequenzen daraus für die deutsche Literaturdidaktik bzw. Literaturgeschichtsdidaktik gezogen werden sollten.