Diachronic Corpus of Literary Mordvin
Keywords: literary language, journalistic language
The Diachronic Corpus of Literary Mordvin contains newspaper articles from different periods of the development of Erzya and Moksha literary languages. The oldest texts are from the year 1920, and the newest from 2008.
Articles are divided into periods:
- 1920s-1937
- 1938-1950s
- 1960s-1970s
- 2000s
They are also classified according to their content:
- politics and society (I)
- economics (II)
- culture and education (III)
- fiction (IV)
The corpus contains 516 texts, 281 in Erzya, and 235 in Moksha. The total number of word tokens is ca. 336,000, 187,000 in Erzya, and 149,000 in Moksha.
The corpus can be used to study changes in Erzya and Moksha literary languages.
The corpus is accessible through Finno-Ugric Corpora portal.
Details about the resource
Content
- Language: Erzya, Moksha
- Form: written language
- Genre: newspaper text
- Dataset size: 516 texts, 336,000 word tokens
- Timescale: 1920–2008
Authors
| Jorma Luutonen | |
| Mihail Mosin | |
Valentina Shtshankina |
Availability
Available at
Contant person
| Jussi Ylikoski | volgaserver *at* utu.fi |