Information Structure in Complex Sentences - Synchronic and Diachronic: Preparation of a Diachronic Contrastive Corpus

基于话语语境，该项目从共时和历时的角度考察了信息结构[=IS]对古印欧语言（即印度雅利安语、阿维斯特语、赫梯语/卢语、希腊语和拉丁语）复杂句子变化的贡献。在共时性方面，它处理的问题是，除了信息的主要结构外，复句中是否存在次要结构。在历时方面，该项目通过比较不同语言时期的文本，考察复句中IS和其他特征的协方差导致的历史变化和跨语言发展趋势。为此目的，使用与信息系统和语法有关的标准以及语言学和语法标准进行多模态注释的连贯文本将被转移到ANNIS数据库，供进一步研究（历史语法、语料库语言学、语言学等）使用。在提议的项目中，我们计划用更年轻的语言时期的文本来扩大物质基础，如中印度雅利安语、中希腊语和后期拉丁语。这一阶段的结果将与第一阶段的结果进行比较，从而可以概括观察到的语言变化过程。额外的注释也将被转移到ANNIS数据库中。在图书出版中，将对数据进行评估和解释。

Based on discourse contexts, the project examines the contribution of information structure [=IS] to the variability of complex sentences in the older Indo-European languages, i.e., Indo-Aryan, Avestan, Hittite/Luwian, Greek, and Latin, from a synchronic and a diachronic perspective. Regarding synchronic aspects, it deals with the question as to whether, next to a primary structuring of information, there is a secondary structuring within complex sentences. Regarding diachronic aspects, the project examines, by comparing texts belonging to different language periods, which covariance from IS and other features in complex sentences leads to historic changes and cross-linguistic development tendencies. For this purpose, coherent texts, which are annotated multimodally by using IS- and syntax-relevant as well as philological and grammatical criteria, will be transferred into the ANNIS database, where they will be accessible and usable for further research (historical syntax, corpus linguistics, philology etc.). In the project proposed, we are planning to expand the material basis with texts from younger language periods, sc. Middle Indo-Aryan, Middle Greek and Late Latin. The results of this phase will be compared with those from the first phase, whereby generalizations of the observed language change processes will be possible. The additional annotations will be transferred into the ANNIS database as well. In a book publication the data will be evaluated and explained.