A viewing and processing tool for the analysis of a comparable corpus of Kiranti mythology

Aimée Lahaussois (1) , Séverine Guillaume (2)

1 HTL - HTL - Histoire des Théories Linguistiques - UMR 7597
2 LACITO - Langues et civilisations à tradition orale

This presentation describes a trilingual corpus of three endangered languages of the Kiranti group (Tibeto-Burman family) from Eastern Nepal. The languages, which are exclusively oral, share a rich mythology, and it is thus possible to build a corpus of the same native narrative material in the three languages. The segments of similar semantic content are tagged with a "similarity" label to identify correspondences among the three language versions of the story. An interface has been developed to allow these similarities to be viewed together, in order to allow make possible comparison of the different lexical and morphosyntactic features of each language. A concordancer makes it possible to see the various occurrences of words or glosses, and to further compare and contrast the languages.

Mots clés: mythological narrative cycle; Kiranti languages; trilingual comparable corpus

Domaines: Linguistique

Aimée Lahaussois, Séverine Guillaume. A viewing and processing tool for the analysis of a comparable corpus of Kiranti mythology. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluations (LREC), 2012, 5th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora, pp.33-41. ⟨halshs-01229423⟩