Zoroastrian Middle Persian: Digital Corpus and Dictionary (MPCD)

琐罗亚斯德教中古波斯语：数字语料库和词典 (MPCD)

• 批准号: 452473565
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Alberto Cantera Glera
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Iranistik
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/452473565?language=en
• 关键词: Zoroastrian; Middle; Persian; Digital; Corpus

The Middle Persian language played a prominent historical and cultural role in the first millennium CE as the official language of the Sasanian Empire, with a usage spanning several religious traditions. Its texts link East and West in both linguistic and cultural terms, and cover a period stretching from late antiquity to the early Islamic period. Despite this, there is no comprehensive digital database for this language, nor is there a comprehensive lexicographical tool covering the full variety of its vocabulary throughout the long period of its existence. As a first step towards this eventual goal, the present project aims to create an online open-access corpus of all Zoroastrian Middle Persian (henceforth: ZMP) texts in the Pahlavi script. The project will present a corpus of around 705,000 words in transliteration and transcription, as well as digital photographic documentation of the 15 oldest codices. The texts will be supplied with morphological and partial syntactical annotation according to the guidelines developed by the Universal Dependencies. This comprehensive digital corpus of Pahlavi texts will in turn be used as a basis for the creation of a digital Middle Persian-English dictionary of ZMP. It is our hope that we will subsequently be able to expand our work into related projects to include and create corpora and dictionaries of other types of Middle Persian texts. The digital corpus and the ensuing digital dictionary constitute two closely interlinked analytical instruments. They focus on two closely connected but separate aspects of the texts, syntax and semantics, which are linked together in the work of the project. A web-based working environment will be used, which will enable the collaborative processing of both corpus and dictionary and will serve as a user interface for research and analysis of the prepared resources. Moreover, the project aims to make the corpus of Pahlavi literature accessible to the analysis and methods of corpus linguistics developed in the Digital Humanities. The project will adopt a comprehensive new approach and methodology for texts written in ZMP, thereby creating a common basis for comprehensive analysis of both linguistics and conceptual history. This approach also adopts a perspective that highlights ‘horizontal’ (i.e. genre) as well as ‘vertical’ (i.e. historical) differences between texts, both in the corpus and the dictionary. The project is thus conceived as a basis for identifying internal and external factors in the complex fabric of ZMP literary texts, and for providing an adequate means for differentiated analysis of cultural, religious, and social history. A final aim of the project is to bring about links and interactions between the present endeavor and other projects, whether completed or ongoing, in the field of Old and Middle Iranian Studies.

中古波斯语在公元第一个千年作为萨珊帝国的官方语言发挥着重要的历史和文化作用，其使用跨越了多个宗教传统。它的文本在语言和文化方面连接了东西方，涵盖了从古代晚期到伊斯兰早期的时期。尽管如此，这种语言还没有全面的数字数据库，也没有一个全面的词典编纂工具涵盖其长期存在期间的全部词汇。作为实现这一最终目标的第一步，本项目旨在创建一个包含巴列维文字中所有琐罗亚斯德教中古波斯语（以下简称：ZMP）文本的在线开放访问语料库。该项目将提供约 705,000 个单词的音译和转录语料库，以及 15 部最古老抄本的数字摄影文档。将根据通用依赖项制定的指南为文本提供形态和部分句法注释。这个全面的巴列维文本数字语料库将反过来用作创建 ZMP 中古波斯语-英语数字词典的基础。我们希望随后能够将我们的工作扩展到相关项目，以包含和创建其他类型的中古波斯语文本的语料库和词典。数字语料库和随之而来的数字词典构成了两个紧密相连的分析工具。他们专注于文本的两个紧密相连但又独立的方面：语法和语义，它们在项目的工作中联系在一起。将使用基于网络的工作环境，该环境将实现语料库和词典的协作处理，并将作为对已准备资源进行研究和分析的用户界面。此外，该项目旨在使巴列维文学语料库能够用于数字人文学科中开发的语料库语言学的分析和方法。该项目将对用 ZMP 编写的文本采用全面的新方法和方法，从而为语言学和概念史的综合分析奠定共同基础。这种方法还采用了强调语料库和词典中文本之间“水平”（即流派）和“垂直”（即历史）差异的视角。因此，该项目被认为是识别 ZMP 文学文本复杂结构中的内部和外部因素的基础，并为文化、宗教和社会历史的差异化分析提供适当的手段。该项目的最终目标是在当前的努力与古中伊朗研究领域的其他项目（无论是已完成的还是正在进行的）之间建立联系和互动。