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Eastern Armenian Corpus-based Studies Program

2008-2009

Eastern Armenian Corpus-based Studies Program offers academic grants to scholars and students. The purpose of the Program is to foster corpus-oriented research in Armenian linguistics, revisiting the aspects of the traditional grammar that have not been sufficiently studied and developing new descriptive and theoretical concepts by corpus linguistics approaches and methods.

Funded and administered by Corpus Technologies, the Program will support academic research by scholars with sound academic background, young scientists and undergraduates. Grants will be awarded for research on various topics, some examples are provided below:

I. Morphology and lexicon

1. Functional approach to Eastern Armenian definite article
2. Relational nouns (սեղան-ի-ն-ը)
3. Locative: lexical distribution and variation
4. Genitive and dative: one or two cases?
5. Forms of address in Eastern Armenian
6. Functional analysis of the past domain in Eastern Armenian
7. Indicative future vs. present conditional with future reference: comparative analysis
8. Destinative: nonfinite verbal form or inflected infinitive?
9. Connegative: nonfinite form or element of the subjunctive paradigm?
10. Evidentiality
11. Debitive
12. Nonfinite verbal forms under nominalization
13. Valency changing derivations
14. Morphological statistics (EANC based)
15. Diachronical and cross-genre analysis of tendencies in Eastern Armenian grammar (e.g. evolution of the nominal declension)
16. Database of Armenian descriptive tradition (references to descriptive solutions and approaches suggested in the existing grammar studies)

1. Government and argument structure
2. Word order in auxiliary-headed clauses
3. Direct and indirect object
4. Cases governed by adpositions
5. Infinitival constructions
6. Focus and topic in Eastern Armenian

1. Recording dialects
2. Transcribing dialects
3. Nominal (verbal) inflection in dialects

1. Lexical properties of oral texts
2. Reference tracking in oral discourse
3. Productive patterns for neologisms in the verbal system
4. Negation: tendencies observed in modern oral texts
5. Code-switching (Armenian – English – Russian)
6. Serialization in oral discourse
7. Discourse markers
8. Expression of epistemic status
9. Principles of scientific transcription of oral discourse

1. EANC texts, copy editing
2. EANC translation dictionaries (Armenian-Russian, Armenian-English), copy editing
3. Checking markup in EANC grammatical dictionary
4. Lexical grammatical homonymy markup
5. Analysis of word lists unparsed by EANC parser (or analysis of typical mistakes in EANC texts etc.)
6. English translation equivalents update
7. EANC wordlist update (e.g. personal names, place names, abbreviations, acronyms)
8. Semantic markup (lexicalized passives and causatives, animacy etc.)
9. Formal rules for old to new orthography conversion
10. Phonetic dictionary
11. Spontaneous oral discourse, recording
12. Spontaneous oral discourse, scientific transcription