Advances in the accountability of grammatical analysis and description by using regular expressions
Advances in the accountability of grammatical analysis and description by using regular expressions
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使用正则表达式进行语法分析和描述的可靠性的进展
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2012
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U. Mosel
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U. Mosel
本文讨论了基于语料库的语法描述对以前未研究过的语言的代表性、共延性和科学性。虽然对一种以前没有研究过的语言的语法描述很难代表它的任何种类的变体，但如果它涵盖了语料库中呈现的语言现象，它就可以充分地具有共延性。为了使其他研究人员能够在其上下文中检索示例并检查分析，语料库不仅应包含文本集合，还应包含引出的数据，提供元数据并可供其他研究人员访问。然而，只有当描述有助于分析的可复制性时，才能实现科学的问责制，这就要求作者的语料库语言搜索方法被记录在案，以便读者可以找到所描述现象的其他例子，如果不是所有例子的话，并仔细检查搜索方法，分析和描述。如本文所示，一个合适的查询语言，这种科学的语法分析和描述是所谓的正则表达式，实现在注释工具ELAN。根据我过去30年作为语法学家的经验，我想通过比较我早期的传统语法分析方法和我最近在Teop语言文档项目中开始实践的方法，来讨论数字语法学在多大程度上有助于语法描述的责任。[1] Teop语是一种在巴布亚新几内亚布干维尔自治区使用的南岛语，与另外两种语言Tolai语和Samoan语有亲缘关系，我曾为这两种语言写过语法描述（Mosel 1984，Mosel & Hovdhaugen 1992）。
This paper discusses the representativeness, coextensitivity and scientific accountability of corpus-based grammatical descriptions of previously unresearched languages. While a grammatical description of a previously unresearched language can hardly be representative for any kind of its varieties, it can be adequate in coextensitivity if it covers the linguistic phenomena presented in the corpus. In order to allow other researchers to retrieve the examples in their context and check the analysis, the corpus should not only contain text collections, but also the elicited data, provide metadata and be accessible to other researchers. Scientific accountability, however, can only be achieved, if the description facilitates the replicability of the analysis, which presupposes that the authors’ corpus linguistic search methods are documented, so that the readers can find other, if not all examples for the described phenomena, and scrutinize the search methods, the analysis and the description. As is illustrated in this paper, a suitable query language for this kind of scientific grammatical analysis and description are the so-called regular expressions which are implemented in the annotation tool ELAN. Drawing on my experiences as a grammaticographer for the past thirty years, I want to discuss the question to what extent digital grammaticography contributes to the accountability of grammatical descriptions by comparing my earlier traditional methods of grammatical analysis with those that I have recently started practicing in the Teop language documentation project. 1 Teop is an Austronesian Oceanic language spoken in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, and genetically related to the other two languages, Tolai and Samoan, for which I wrote grammatical descriptions (Mosel 1984, Mosel & Hovdhaugen 1992).