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

该项目以语篇语境为基础，从共时和历时两个角度考察了信息结构[=is]对印欧语、阿维斯坦语、希特语/卢维亚语、希腊语和拉丁语等古老印欧语复合句的变异性的影响。关于共时方面，它涉及的问题是，在复句中，除了信息的主要结构之外，是否还有次要结构。在历时方面，该项目通过比较属于不同语言时期的文本来检查，这些文本与复杂句子中的IS和其他特征的协同性导致了历史性的变化和跨语言的发展趋势。为此目的，使用与信息系统和句法以及语言和语法相关的标准进行多方式注释的连贯文本将被转移到ANNIS数据库，在那里可供进一步研究(历史句法、语料库语言学、语言学等)使用。在拟议的项目中，我们计划用年轻语言时期的文本来扩大材料基础，sc。中印度-雅利安语、中希腊语和晚期拉丁语。这一阶段的结果将与第一阶段的结果进行比较，第一阶段的结果将可能概括所观察到的语言变化过程。额外的注解也将转移到ANNIS数据库。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.