Syntax Archive
The Syntax Archive is a research archive specialised in developing and maintaining Finnish language corpora. It houses digitised text, video and sound corpora available to researchers and students. The majority of the data is organised into digitised annotated corpora.
We have developed five digital corpora which have been morphologically and syntactically annotated. These corpora can be accessed through the Language Bank of Finland. The collected data extends from the earliest written Finnish to modern everyday conversations, and covers Finnish language produced by native speakers as well as non-native learners of Finnish. In addition to these corpora, the Syntax Archive houses audio, video and text data available to researchers and students. The Syntax Archive participates in the Digilang project which aims at developing the digital language resources at the School of Languages and Translation Studies.
Grammatically annotated corpora
The dialect corpus is the first morphologically and syntactically annotated language corpus developed in Finland. It covers all major dialect areas of Finnish.
- Contains 193,947 clauses, 1,078,183 words.
- Developed in co-operation with the Institute for the Languages of Finland.
The Arkisyn corpus contains Finnish everyday conversations which have been morphologically and syntactically annotated. The data comes from the Conversation Analysis Archive at the University of Helsinki and the Finnish language Recording Archive at the University of Turku.
- Contains currently 46,808 clauses, 6,246 NPs, 18,583 particles or particle chains, 4,969 grammatical fragments, and 279,023 words.
The Agricola corpus contains old written Finnish. It consists of the Finnish-language parts of the complete works of Mikael Agricola. It has been morphologically and syntactically fully annotated.
- Contains 83,678 clauses and 428,314 words.
- Developed in co-operation with the Institute for the Languages of Finland.
The Corpus of advanced learners of Finnish contains written data produced by advanced learners of Finnish in various academic settings. Additionally, the corpus contains reference material produced by native speakers of Finnish. All the material has been morphologically and syntactically annotated.
- The LAS2 contains 41,628 clauses and 271,331 words
- The reference corpus of native speakers contains 176,526 words.
The Corpus of Academic Finnish contains written academic Finnish texts from different disciplines. The corpus enables, for example, research into the typical features of academic Finnish and the differences between different disciplines and different genres of academic discourse.
- The corpus currently contains 28,680 clauses and 219,371 words.
Non-annotated corpora
The non-annotated corpora include recordings and transcriptions from the Satakunta region (Sapu) (255 transcriptions of over 200 hours) and the data from the Prosovar project studying the regional variation of Finnish prosody.
Sound and video recordings
The Syntax Archive houses the sound and video recordings of the Finnish language recording archive at the University of Turku. All the data is available in digital format. In total, the data comprises more than 5,600 hours of recordings.
Contact information
Visiting address
Hämeenkatu 1, Turku
Postal address
Syntax Archive
Department of Finnish and Finno-Ugric Studies
FI-20014 University of Turku, Finland