Publications

Team publications

  • Booth, Hannah, Anne Breitbarth and Melissa Farasyn. To appear. Linke Satzperipherie, Mittelfeld und Nullsubjekte Im Mittelniederdeutschen: Zur Untersuchung syntaktischer Phänomene mit dem CHLG. In Marco Coniglio, Anabel Recker and Heike Sahm (eds.), Mittelniederdeutsch an der Schnittstelle zwischen Literaturwissenschaft, Sprachwissenschaft und Digital Humanities.  Göttingen: Universitätsverlag Göttingen.
  • Breibarth, Anne. 2024. Bad data, parsed corpora, and an under explored natural alliance in the study of diachronic syntax. Diachronica 40(5): Diachrony and Diachronic 40@40, 670–672. doi:10.1075/dia.24014.bow
  • Breitbarth, Anne. 2023. V3 after central adverbials in German: Continuity or change? Journal of Historical Syntax 7(8): 1–47. doi:10.18148/hs/2023.v7i6-19.138
  • Booth, Hannah. 2022. Desiderata for the annotation of information structure in complex sentences. In Proceedings of the 16th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW XVI), 31–43. Marseille, France: European Language Resources Association.
  • Farasyn, Melissa and Anne Breitbarth. 2021. Null subjects in Middle Low German: Diachronic stability and change. In Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson and Thórhallur Eythórsson (eds.), Syntactic Features and the Limits of Syntactic Change. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780198832584.003.0005
  • Booth, Hannah, Anne Breitbarth, Aaron Ecay, and Melissa Farasyn. 2020. A Penn-Style Treebank of Middle Low German. In Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020), 766–775. Marseille, France: European Language Resources Association.
  • Farasyn, Melissa, George Walkden, Sheila Watts, and Anne Breitbarth. 2018. The interplay between genre and syntax in a historical Low German corpus. In Richard J. Whitt (ed.), Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change, 281–300. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. doi:10.1075/scl.85.13far.
  • Koleva, Mariya, Melissa Farasyn, Bart Desmet, Anne Breitbarth, and Veronique Hoste. 2017. An Automatic Part-of-Speech Tagger for Middle Low German. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 2(1): 108–141. doi:10.1075/ijcl.22.1.05kol.
  • Farasyn, Melissa, and Anne Breitbarth. 2016. Nullsubjekte Im Mittelniederdeutschen. Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur 138(4): 524–559. doi:10.1515/bgsl-2016-0040.

Publications citing the corpus

  • Sapp, Christopher, Elliott Evans, Rex Sprouse and Daniel Dakota. 2024. Introducing a parsed corpus of historical High German. Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), 9224–9233. Turin, Italy: ELRA and ICCL.
  • Booth, Hannah and Tianyi Zhao. 2023. A broader perspective on “basic” word order: Ditransitives in Middle Low German. Journal of Historical Syntax. 7(21): 1–63. doi:10.18148/hs/2023.v7i21.180.
  • Booth, Hannah and Alexandra Rehn. 2023. The Possessor Linking Construction in Middle Low German and Alemannic. In Augustin Speyer and Jenny Diener (eds.), Syntax aus Saarbrücker Sicht 5: Beiträge der SaRDiS´-Tagung zur Dialektsyntax, 31–70. Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag. doi:10.25162/9783515135139.
  • Sapp, Christopher, Daniel Dakota and Elliott Evans. 2023. Parsing Early New High German: Benefits and limitations of cross-dialectal training. In Proceedings of the 21st International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT, GURT/SyntaxFest 2023), 54–66, Washington, D.C.: Association for Computational Linguistics.
  • Breitbarth, Anne. 2022. Live fast, die even younger: The affinity construction in Middle Low German. Journal of Historical Syntax 6(14), 1–33. doi:10.18148/hs/2022.v6i13-18.133.
  • Farasyn, Melissa, Anne-Sophie Ghyselen, Jacques Van Keymeulen and Anne Breitbarth. 2022. Challenges in tagging and parsing spoken dialects of Dutch. Journal of Historical Syntax 6(6), 1–36. doi:10.18148/hs/2022.v6i4-11.92.
  • Hägele, David, Christoph Schulz, Cedric Beschle, Hannah Booth, Miriam Butt, Andrea Barth, Oliver Deussen and Daniel Weiskopf. 2022. Uncertainty visualisation: fundamentals and recent developments. it – Information Technology: special issue on Quantitative Visual Computing. doi:10.1515/itit-2022-0033.
  • Meelen, Marieke and David Willis. 2022. Towards a historical treebank of Middle and Modern Welsh: Syntactic parsing. Journal of Historical Syntax 6(5),  1–32. doi:10.18148/hs/2022.v6i4-11.135.
  • Struik, Tara. 2022. Information structure triggers for word order variation and change: The OV/VO alternation in the West Germanic languages. PhD dissertation, Radboud University.
  • Struik, Tara. 2022. OV/VO variation and information structure in Old Saxon and Middle Low German. Journal of Historical Syntax 6(1): 1–36. doi:10.18148/hs/2022.v6i1.127.
  • Arnardóttir, Þórunn, Hinrik Hafsteinsson, Einar Freyr Sigurðsson, Kristín Bjarnadóttir, Anton Karl Ingason, Hildur Jónsdóttir and Steinþór Steingrímsson. 2020. A Universal Dependencies conversion pipeline for a Penn-format constituency treebank. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2020), 16–25, Barcelona, Spain (online): Association for Computational Linguistics.
  • Beck, Christin, Hannah Booth, Mennatallah El-Assady and Miriam Butt. 2020. Representation problems in linguistic annotations: Ambiguity, variation, uncertainty, error and bias. In Stephanie Dipper, Amir Zeldes, Luke Gessler and Adam Roussel (eds.), Proceedings of the 14th Linguistic Annotation Workshop, 60–73. Barcelona, Spain (online): Association for Computational Linguistics.
  • Beck, Christin and Miriam Butt. 2020. Visual analytics for historical linguistics: Opportunities and challenges. Journal of Data Mining and Digital  Humanities: Special issue on Visualisations in Historical Linguistics, 1–23. doi:10.46298/jdmdh.6707.

Have we missed something?

If you have any publications which use data from the Middle Low German component of the CHLG and which are NOT listed here, please contact Anne Breitbarth.