Dataset of Mordvin GOAL-cases

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dc.contributor.affiliationLudwig-Maximilians-Universität München & University of Helsinki-Riku Erkkilä
dc.contributor.authorRiku Erkkilä
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-29T14:02:32Z
dc.date.issued2022-02-01
dc.date.issued2022-02-01
dc.descriptionThis open access dataset contains examples of the goal-oriented cases illative and lative in Mordvin languages Erzya and Moksha. The dataset consists of two parts: senses of the goal-cases (files with prefix sense) and type of the landmark noun (files with prefix LM). There is currently one dataset that includes 200 analyzed examples of each case in each language (800 examples in total). All the data is analyzed according to sense and landmark type. The data is collected from MokshEr corpus maintained by University of Turku. Sense means the semantic content that is expressed by the goal-case in a clause. The following values are found in the data: direction, location, part, place, purpose, reason, result, staying, target, and temporal. In addition, contextual variants of the senses are shown in brackets. Landmark type means what kind of entity the referent of the landmark is. There are eight categories in the data: 1D object, 2D bounded landmark, 2D unbounded landmark, 3D bounded landmark, 3D unbounded landmark, abstract landmark, institution, and temporal landmark.   The senses-data is annotated for following information: The noun or relational noun phrase inflected in goal-case. The predicate as inflected in the data. Translations of both (mainly in citation form, but in predicate sometimes with some grammatical information) The sense of the goal-case in the utterance. The prototypicality of the example as a member of its sense on a scale from 1 (non- prototypical) to 5 (prototypical) NB! This assessment is based on the authors language competence and on general semantic principles, and as such should be considered only as directive. The original sentence from the corpus. Free translation. Some of the translations are done following the lexical meanings and syntactic structures of Mordvin languages, so the English is unidiomatic from time to time. The file name with which the original sentence can be located in the corpus.   The landmark-data is annotated for the same information, except that there is additional information of the landmark type, and the prototypicality score is a value from 1 (non-prototypical) to 4 (prototypical) showing how prototypical the referent of the landmark is in its landmark type. Score 0 means that the prototypicality scale is not applied to the landmark type in question. Unlike in sense-data, the prototypicality in the landmark-data is based on prelinguistic spatial primitives of containment and support, as well as the human ability to recognize boundaries. The author of this dataset is Riku Erkkilä and it is published under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The data is originally collected in the framework of Descriptive Grammar of Mordvin project (University of Helsinki) funded by Kone Foundation. If used in a publication, please refer to this publication as well as mention the original source: MokshEr V.3 (2010). Corpus of Mordvin languages. University of Turku.   This dataset has been used in following publications:
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5940175
dc.identifier.urihttps://datakatalogi.helsinki.fi/handle/123456789/5175
dc.rights.licensecc-by-nc-nd-4.0
dc.subjectspatial cases
dc.subjectspatial language
dc.subjectcognitive linguistics
dc.subjectMordvin languages
dc.subjectErzya
dc.subjectMoksha
dc.subjectgoal-cases
dc.subjectillative
dc.subjectlative
dc.titleDataset of Mordvin GOAL-cases
dc.typedataset

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