• Word Formation in Ancient Greek
  • Introduction
  • Database
  • Tagging
  • Data extraction
  • Graphics
  • Video presentation
  • Word families
  • Progress
  • Some references

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Word Formation in Ancient Greek

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Introduction

1. This is the site of the Project “Word Formation in Ancient Greek”.
2. The purpose of this project is to create a new handbook of Word Formation in the footsteps of Debrunner and Risch.
3. This site is under construction.

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Database

1. The nucleus of the project is a database containing the Liddle-Scott-Jones Dictionary provided by the Perseus Project.
2. The LSJ has been take from Helma Dik's Logeion based on Celano's Unicode LSJ.
3. This dictionary contains 116.500 lemmata.
4. The information is encoded in xml.

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Tagging

1. Each lemma is tagged for the following information:
   • Segmentation
   • Word class
   • Suffixes
   • Prefixes.
   • Infixes.
   • Gender
   • Accent
   • Family root
   • ...
2. The tagging is both manual and automatic.
3. Structure of the DB (partial information):

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Data extraction

1. Many of the processes are automatized taking as starting point the manually tagging.

2. The derivation of each lemma is extracted automatically, once the first base of each lemma has been manually established:

3. This vídeo shows the automatic extraction.

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Graphics

1. The database allows the automatical creation of graphics representing the derivation of each lemma.
2. The graphics are created in Markdown using Mermaid.

3. The following image (svg) depicts a provisional representation of the word family πείθω (‘to persuade’):

4. The following subsection offers a selection of the tools used for creating the graphics: Mermaid .

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Video presentation

1. This Youtube video offers a glimpse of the project in two minutes.
2. The presentation is included in the DARIAH-DAY Spain.

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Word families

1. This link leads to some provisional graphics representing word families.
2. These graphics are just meant as teaching material.

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Progress

Progress:

1. Work plan and schedule
2. Task list

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Some references

A more complete bibliography is currently under construction.

1. Chantraine, P. (2002). Morphologie historique du grec (Reprint of the 2nd edition Paris 1961). Klincksieck.
2. Debrunner A. (1917). Griechische Wortbildungslehre. C. Winter.
3. Emde Boas E. van. (2019). The Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek. Cambridge University Press.
4. Risch E. (1937). Wortbildung der Homerischen Sprache. W. de Gruyter.