Database of Early Pidgin and Creole Texts (DEPiCT)

早期皮钦语和克里奥尔文本数据库（描述）汇集了早期的证明和描述，主要是由个别克里奥尔人收集的英语和荷兰语的接触语言。根据标准系统对文本进行注释，并在可检索的电子数据库中联机提供。除了语言数据外，其他重要的语境和社会语言学信息也会被注释，比如话语的位置和情境、说话者的社会传记信息、语言的使用领域以及对语言的态度。这将为研究开辟全新的途径：描述将成为接触语言历史语言学研究的标准参考数据库，既可以用于个体语言研究，也可以用于比较语言学研究，既可以从结构语言学的角度，也可以从社会语言学的角度。将目前分散在个别研究人员之间的资料集合到《描述》中，其相当大的优势扩展到以下领域：通过收集分散的文本集合，《描述》提供了对个别接触语言的发展和历史的更完整的概述和更全面的文档。语言数据标注为1。2.形态学分割文本；3.词形的正交等价。源语言，5。光泽,6。Word类注释和7。意译使数据库最大限度地可搜索，并允许在个别文本之间进行比较。对社会语言学信息的注释有助于系统地研究接触语言的出现和使用情况，以及将语言数据置于语境中并将其与社会语言学参数相关联。通过允许文本之间的直接比较，描述使得评估早期来源的可靠性成为可能。通过收集和电子保存目前以各种格式分发给个人研究人员的数据，描述作为在线备份和存档。在描述的基础上，手册上的个别接触品种将放在一起。每一章节都将包含一个关于来源的部分，对以前历时研究的概述，以及历时社会语言学和结构发展的相关方面的描述，并从数据库中提取具体的例子。除此之外，手册还将包括关于特定语言特征和社会语言学参数发展的跨语言类型学章节，关于世界不同地区早期接触品种的作用，以及关于语法化和非语法化的过程（后者特别是关于洋泾浜化）。

The Database of Early Pidgin and Creole Texts (DEPiCT) assembles early attestations and descriptions of mainly English- and Dutch-lexified contact languages collected by individual creolists. The texts are annotated according to a standard system and made available online in a searchable electronic database. In addition to linguistic data, other important contextual and sociolinguistic information is annotated, such as the location and situation of the utterance, socio-biographical information on the speakers, the domains of use for the language, and the attitudes towards the language. This will allow for entirely new avenues for research: DEPiCT will be available as a standard reference database for historical linguistic studies on contact languages, both for individual languages as well as for comparative linguistic studies, and both from structural as well as from sociolinguistic perspectives. The considerable advantages of assembling into DEPiCT the collections that are at present spread among individual researchers extend, inter alia, to the following areas: By gathering scattered text collections, DEPiCT offers a more complete overview and more comprehensive documentation of the development and history of individual contact languages. Annotation of linguistic data as 1. morphologically segmented text, 2. orthographic equivalence in the lexifier, 3. source language, 5. gloss, 6. word class annotation und 7. free translation makes the database maximally searchable and allows for comparison between individual texts.Annotation on sociolinguistic information facilitates systematic research on the circumstances of the emergence and use of contact languages, as well as contextualizing linguistic data and correlating it with sociolinguistic parameters. By allowing direct comparison between texts, DEPiCT makes it possible to evaluate the reliability of early sources. DEPiCT serves as an online backup and archive for posteriority, by collecting and electronically saving data which at present is distributed in various formats with individual researchers. Based on DEPiCT a handbook on the individual contact varieties will be put together. The chapters of the individual varieties will each contain a section on sources, an overview of previous diachronic studies, as well as a description of relevant aspects of the diachronic sociolinguistic and structural development, with concrete examples drawn from the database. In addition to this, the handbook will include cross-linguistic typological chapters on the development of specific linguistic features and sociolinguistic parameters, on the role of early contact varieties in various regions of the world, as well as on processes of grammaticalization and degrammaticalization (the latter with respect to pidginization in particular).