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Published November 25, 2019 | Version 2.0.2
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Romance Verbal Inflection Dataset 2.0

  • 1. Dept. of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
  • 2. Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics, University of Oxford
  • 3. School of Languages and Cultures, University of Queensland

Description

We introduce the Romance Verbal Inflection Dataset 2.0, a multilingual lexicon of Romance inflection covering 73 varieties. The lexicon provide verbal paradigm forms in broad IPA phonemic notation. Both lexemes and paradigm cells are organized to reflect cognacy. Such multi-lingual inflected lexicons annotated for two dimensions of cognacy are necessary to study the evolution of inflectional paradigms, and test linguist hypothesis systematically. However, these resources seldom exist, and when they do, they are not usually encoded in computationally usable ways. The Oxford Online Database of Romance Verb Morphology provides this kind of information, however, it is not maintained anymore and only available as a web service without interfaces for machine-readability. We collect its data and clean and correct it for consistency using both heuristics and expert annotator judgements. Most resources used to study language evolution computationally rely strictly on multilingual contemporary information, and lack information about prior stages of the languages. To provide such information, we augmented the database  with Latin paradigms from the LatInFlexi lexicon. Finally, to make it widely avalable, the resource is released under a GPLv3 license in CLDF format.

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Part of this upload is extracted the LatInFlexi lexicon: from https://github.com/matteo-pellegrini/LatInfLexi

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