Word families in diachrony (WoDia) - A research environment for the historical word formation of German

“历时词族”项目旨在提供一个数据库驱动的在线研究环境，作为研究和教学的工具，它将把古高地德语、中古高地德语、古撒克逊语和中古低地德语词汇嵌入一个总体词族结构中，从而能够使用层次结构公式确定每个词在词族中的位置。其基础是历史上各种参考词典的词汇，这些词汇将与词典的在线资源（词典文章、文件集）和相应的参考语料库（古德语、中古高地德语和中古低地德语/低地莱茵语）相链接。WoDia将通过关注单词家族的变化（扩展，拆卸，重建）和单词构成的个人手段的使用，来调查德语历史词汇的变化过程。纳入该项目的词族发展研究（论文）将首先展示语言发展的基本组成部分（构词，借用）如何在词族结构中表现出来，以及形式和语义模糊性（例如词缀）如何反映在语言变化过程中。其次，本文将以作文为例，讨论范畴一致性在分析中所起的作用以及它如何影响对语言数据的解释。第三，这些研究将通过检查两个词族来评估研究环境。对于每个词元，数据库将包含一个词族的赋值以及一个映射各个构词元素和构词层次的结构公式。词源对应的词元和词家族的不同阶段的德语将被连接，使跨品种的分析也将是可能的。词族数据库中的注释（例如关于词结构的注释）将通过与词典的在线材料和参考语料库链接的词元来补充，并建立在来自这些资源的各种类型的信息（上下文、文本分配、分类法）的基础上。借助（图形）用户界面，可在线搜索词族数据库，例如，搜索某个德语变体中带有选定前缀的词性词元。对于查询结果，将提供不同的表示，例如，具有关联注释的词元和词族列表（针对各个品种和跨品种），以及交互式可视化。研究环境将由Kompetenzzentrum - Trier数字人文中心主办。以前没有在线提供的基础词典的数字化版本也将在特里尔词典网络（Wörterbuchnetz）上在线发布。

The "Word families in diachrony" project aims to provide a database-driven online research environment as an instrument for research and teaching, which will embed the Old High German, Middle High German, Old Saxon and Middle Low German vocabularies in an overarching word family structure allowing to determine for each word ist place in ist word family using a hierarchical structural formula. The basis is the vocabulary of the reference dictionaries of the historical varieties which is to be linked with the online resources of the dictionaries (dictionary articles, collections of documents) and with the corresponding reference corpora (Old German, Middle High German and Middle Low German / Low Rhenish). WoDia will enable the investigation of processes of change in the historical vocabulary of German in ist entirety by focusing on the changes in word families (expansion, dismantling, reconstruction) and the use of the individual means of word formation. Studies on the development of word families (dissertations) integrated into the project will firstly show how the essential components of language development (word formation, borrowing) manifest themselves in word family structures and how formal and semantic ambiguity (e.g. of affixes) is reflected in processes of language change. Secondly, the example of composition will be used to discuss what role categorical vagueness plays in the analysis and how it affects the interpretation of the linguistic data. Thirdly, the studies will enable an evaluation of the research environment by examining two families of words. For each lemma, the database will contain the assignment to a word family as well as a structural formula which maps the individual word formation elements and the word formation hierarchy. The etymologically corresponding lemmas and word families of the different stages of German will be linked so that an analysis across the varieties will also be possible. The annotations in the word family database (e.g. concerning the word structure) will be supplemented by their lemmas being linked with the online materials of the dictionaries and with the reference corpora, building upon various types of information from these resources (contexts, textual assignment, diasystematic classification). The word family database will be searchable online with the help of a (graphical) user interface, e.g. for lemmas of a part of speech with a selected prefix in a certain variety of German. For the query results, different representations will be provided, e.g. a lemma and word family list with the associated annotations (both for the individual varieties and across them), but also interactive visualizations. The research environment will be hosted by the Kompetenzzentrum - Trier Center for Digital Humanities. The digitized versions of the underlying dictionaries that were not previously available online will also be published online in the Trier dictionary network (Wörterbuchnetz).