Project Title
WoPoss. A World of Possibilities Modal pathways over an extra-long period of time: the diachrony of modality in the Latin language
Internal ID
44567
Principal Investigator
Status
Ongoing
Start Date
February 1, 2019
End Date
January 31, 2025
Organisations
Identifiants
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Keywords
Diachronic semantics Modality Latin Digital Humanities Computational methods and tools Corpus-based approach
Description
The SNSF-funded project A world of possibilities. Modal pathways over an extra-long period of time: the diachrony of modality in the Latin language (WoPoss) aims at reconstructing the evolution of modal meanings from the prehistory of the Latin language up to the 7th century CE. The WoPoss team is working on the linguistic annotation of a selection of modal markers in a diachronic corpus of Latin literary and documentary texts. As annotation progresses, data will be made available during the project lifespan (February 2019–January 2023).