Latin-Indirect-Speech

Ben Miller (bam197@pitt.edu)

Analysis of indirect speech use in Latin

Overview

This project seeks to examine the syntax of indirect speech in Latin, and how it differs between authors and eras. The dataset used is the PROIEL Treebank, a corpus with 225,064 tokens of Latin data, as well as other classical Indo-European languages.

The texts used are as follows:

• Gaius Julius Caesar - Commentaries on the Gallic Wars
• Marcus Tullius Cicero - De officiis
• Marcus Tullius Cicero - Letters to Atticus
• Peregrinatio Aetheriae
• Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus Palladius - Opus agriculturae

Directory

• Final report
• The project plan
• The annotator script
• Progress reports
• An introduction to indirect speech
• A sample of the data
• Overview of the data
• The analysis
• Presentation files
• Graphics and Images
• Guestbook (External)