Classical Greek Verbal Multi-Word Expressions: PARSEME-GRC
Requirements
- Classical Greek (ideally Attic) to A-level
Description
The course introduces the audience to the PARSEME 1.3 annotation effort for classical Greek. The annotation effort is interested in verbal multi-word expressions such as to spill the beans, to make a suggestion, and to make do in a large range of languages, primarily spoken languages currently. Verbal multi-word expressions are currently underrepresented in standard dictionaries and grammar books of classical Greek. The course showcases what being an annotator in the initiative looks like, what difficulties exist, and how we overcome them, and what we can do with the annotated data on the research side subsequently. All the links to guidelines and all texts to be worked on are supplied in the course resources. Recommendations for external resources to use are provided. The course is intended not only for those interested to join the initiative but also for those interested in Greek linguistics and specifically verbal multi-word expressions especially coming to this from a natural language processing background. The course is a hands-on tutorial for the corpus annotation rather than a linguistic review of verbal multi-word expressions and requires takers to have a good level of knowledge in classical Greek (ideally Attic dialect), we recommend A-level equivalent or above.
Who this course is for:
- Aspiring linguistics interested in verbal multi-word expressions in large digital corpora
Instructor
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I did my BA in Classical civilisations (majors: Greek, Latin) at the University of Basel and my MA in Ancient Greek and Ancient Near East Studies (archaeology and languages, i.e. Hebrew and Arabic) also at the University of Basel yet spending one semester at the Humboldt University of Berlin and the Free University of Berlin during an ERASMUS exchange during my MA. I then completed my DPhil in Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford (Lady Margaret Hall) with a thesis on Classical Linguistics. Last but not least, I did an MPhil in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge (Peterhouse) with a thesis on French Linguistics. In addition, I acquired teaching qualifications for a university context (SEDA PDF) and a non-university context (Teaching English as a Foreign Language). Currently, I am a research fellow at the University of Oxford.
I taught Biblical Hebrew at Basel, Latin and Greek at Oxford and am currently teaching Classical Languages for Oxford and Cambridge. During my DPhil already I totally fell in love with modern Romance languages and therefore spent my summers in Canada (Quebec) and southern France to learn French where it is spoken before doing my MPhil on French syntax. The second Romance language of choice, I just love the sound of it admittedly, is Italian, which I learnt during my DPhil and MPhil because I needed it first for my academic research and then for comparative purposes. During the last few summers, I spent a lot of time teaching English as a Second / Foreign Language, first in Kathmandu (Nepal) during a volunteering placement (2018) and then in Oxford for Oxford Summer Courses, a renown summer school provider (2019), and then online via Tutorful to help buffer the effect of the pandemic on students (2020). In some way, my academic studies and my love for travelling the world has taken me to a significant number of linguistic contexts and settings and has given me the opportunity to immerse in a large number of languages. I can highly recommend this to everyone looking for a challenge – learn a language, take wing and see the world.