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CorDon is a freely accessible, deeply annotated digital corpus (ca. 24,000 words) of the works of Lithuanian national poet Kristijonas Donelaitis: (a) the four-part poetic cycle Metai ("The Year", including the 29-line "Fortsetzung"), (b) an early part of this cycle, Pričkaus pasaka apie lietuvišką svodbą ("Fritz‘s Story about the Lithuanian Wedding") and (c) the six fables (pasakos).
The corpus is based on manuscript-accurate and print-accurate digitizations of the texts, which have been annotated lexically and morphosyntactically using a grammatical model of Old Lithuanian (CorDon tagset), itself based on the SLIEKKAS tagset. SLIEKKAS also offers comprehensive metadata as well as ELAN format versions of the texts which include textological annotations.
The annotated texts have been linked, and aligned on the verse or word level, with a facsimile of the autograph (DM PL.WD.F) as well as the print editions by Ludwig J. Rhesa (DMRh 1818, DPRh 1824), August Schleicher (DMSch 1865), and Georg H. F. Nesselmann (DMN 1869).
The sigla of all texts contained in the corpus are explained in CorDon_Sigla.pdf. In addition to the annotated main text, the text of the oldest print editions and several translations can be displayed in parallel.
The files are in three formats: the full Toolbox project (https://software.sil.org/toolbox/) (with lexical and morphosyntactic annotation, normalisation and glosses), ELAN (https://archive.mpi.nl/tla/elan), and TEI-XML. For viewing and annotating the texts in Toolbox and ELAN, please see the Sliekkas_Tagset.PDF. The TEI files of the four main "Metai" poems include an automatic metrical analysis of each line generated by Kierán Meinhardt.
REFERENCES
CorDon https://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/cordon/start.html (accessed 26/2/2025).
Büch, Philipp; Drach, Mortimer; Gelumbeckaitė, Jolanta; Hoenen, Armin; Cerri, Adriano; Wadlinger, Vanessa. 2021. „Both Digital Edition and Corpus Archive: The works of Kristijonas Donelaitis“, AIUCD 2021 - DHs for society: e-quality, participation, rights and values in the Digital Age, Book of extended abstracts of the 10th national conference, Pisa: AIUCD. 459-460. BOOK OF ABSTRACTS
Gelumbeckaitė, Jolanta. 2015. "Kristijonas Donelaitis im Referenzcorpus Altlitauisch (SLIEKKAS)", Baltu filoloģija 24(1), Baltu valodniecības žurnāls, Journal of Baltic Linguistics. Rīga: LU Akādemiskais apgāds, 19–50. PDF
Gelumbeckaitė, Jolanta. 2016. "Kristijono Donelaičio Metų leksinė ir gramatinė anotacija" [=The Lexical and Grammatical Annotation of The Seasons by Kristijonas Donelaitis] in: Kristijono Donelaičio reikšmės, straipsnių rinkinys, sudarė [=Meanings of Kristijonas Donelaitis, collection, ed.:] Mikas Vaicekauskas. Vilnius: Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos institutas, 305–325. PDF
Hoenen, Armin. 2018. "Recurrence Analysis Function, a Dynamic Heatmap for the Visualization of Verse Text and Beyond" in: Bubenhofer, Noah, & Marc Kupietz, eds. Visualisierung sprachlicher Daten: Visual Linguistics – Praxis – Tools. Heidelberg University Publishing, 149–166. PDF
Meinhardt, Kierán. 2023. Der Hexameter der Metai von Kristijonas Donelaitis: Chancen und Grenzen einer automatischen Untersuchung, BALTISTICA LVIII(2), 225–251.
SLIEKKAS project https://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/sliekkas/ (accessed 26/2/2025). |
