Database of Early Pidgin and Creole Texts (DEPiCT)

早期洋泾宾语和克里奥尔语文本数据库(DESCRICE)汇集了个别克里奥尔人收集的主要由英语和荷兰语词汇构成的接触语言的早期证明和描述。这些文本根据标准系统进行注释，并在可搜索的电子数据库中在线提供。除了语言数据外，还对其他重要的语境和社会语言学信息进行了注释，例如话语的位置和位置、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：DESCRATE将作为关于接触语言的历史语言研究的标准参考数据库，既可用于个别语言的研究，也可用于比较语言研究，也可用于结构和社会语言学角度的研究。将目前在个别研究人员中传播的文集汇编成DESCRIPT的相当大的优势，除其他外，扩展到以下领域：通过收集分散的文本文集，DESCRIPT提供了关于个别联系语言的发展和历史的更完整的概述和更全面的文件。对语言数据的注释如：1.形态分割的文本，2.词汇的拼写对等，3.源语言，5.注释，6.词类注释和7.自由翻译使数据库具有最大程度的可搜索性，并允许在单个文本之间进行比较。对社会语言学信息的注释有助于系统地研究接触语言的产生和使用的情况，以及将语言数据与社会语言学参数关联起来。通过允许文本之间的直接比较，DESCRATE使评估早期来源的可靠性成为可能。DESCRICE通过收集和电子保存数据，为后来者提供在线备份和档案，目前这些数据以各种格式与个别研究人员一起分发。在描绘的基础上，将个别接触品种的手册汇编在一起。个别变种的每一章都将包含关于来源的一节，概述以往历时研究，并说明历时社会语言和结构发展的相关方面，并附有数据库中的具体例子。此外，该手册将包括关于特定语言特征和社会语言学参数的发展的跨语言类型学章节，关于早期接触变体在世界各地区的作用，以及关于语法化和非语法化过程(特别是关于洋葱化的后者)的章节。

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).