Corpora and language variation in Greek
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2019/10/0018/000380Keywords:
language corpus, diglossia, modern Greek, language variationAbstract
It seems that there are certain linguistic situations ideally adapted for the usage-based approach and the Greek case is one of them. This is a corpus-based study, which is based on the analysis and processing of a large variety of Greek texts in everyday spoken interactions. As our starting point, we argue the panchronic character of Greek lexicon, its extreme conservatism and the man-made character of the formation of the Greek literary standard. Some practical issues such as the choice between monotonic and polytonic orthography, lexemes tagging to obtain more data are addressed here.
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