Writing Out Loud: Abkhaz Converbs and Getting Data to Do Stuff

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@SarahDopierala

Maybe I could use some kind of software to “look through” all the different resources I have to help me locate examples with converbs more quickly. A lot of the resources I have are PDFs (most are probably computer readable?). I could have the program search for particular glosses (or maybe even particular strings of characters – that are not English – but I don’t know how well that would work). I have a whole bunch of texts like grammars and readers and legit text collections to look through. And maybe there could be a way to have it search some of the databases that have Abkhaz texts online as well?

@mjcarroll’s talk touches on searching through a library of pdfs. It’s well worth a watch if you haven’t yet!

Computational Methods for Linguistic Typology - CoEDL 2022 Masterclass

Local hero Matt Carroll @mjcarroll tweeted that his masterclass on Computational Methods for Linguistic Typology is now online. This masterclass will show how computational methods can be used to amplify the efforts of multivariate linguistic typology to answer core CoEDL questions of how and why languages differ. The course will take us through the typological data cycle and show how we can use computational methods to collect, manage, analyse and share typological data. We will see…