This paper aims to apply a corpus-driven approach to Dante Alighieri’s Latin works using UDante, a treebank based on Dante Search and part of the Universal Dependencies project. We present a method based on the notion of barycentre applied to a dependency tree as a way to calculate the “syntactic balance” of a sentence. Its application to Dante’s Latin works shows its potential in analysing the style of an author, and contributes to the interpretation of the supprema constructio mentioned in DVE II vi 7 as a well balanced syntactic pattern modeled on Latin literary writing
Cecchini, F. M., Pedonese, G., A Treebank-based Approach to the Supprema Constructio in Dante’s Latin Works, in Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages, (Marseille, France, 25-25 June 2022), ELRA, Paris 2022: 51-58 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/211884]
A Treebank-based Approach to the Supprema Constructio in Dante’s Latin Works
Cecchini, Flavio MassimilianoCo-primo
;Pedonese, GiuliaCo-primo
2022
Abstract
This paper aims to apply a corpus-driven approach to Dante Alighieri’s Latin works using UDante, a treebank based on Dante Search and part of the Universal Dependencies project. We present a method based on the notion of barycentre applied to a dependency tree as a way to calculate the “syntactic balance” of a sentence. Its application to Dante’s Latin works shows its potential in analysing the style of an author, and contributes to the interpretation of the supprema constructio mentioned in DVE II vi 7 as a well balanced syntactic pattern modeled on Latin literary writing
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