Comprehensive Coptic Lexicon - Research Data

The repository “Comprehensive Coptic Lexicon - Research Data” contains the research data related to the dictionary:

• Project documentation uploaded as PDF-files to the "Code" section and/or written in markdown in "Wiki" section.
• Released TEI XML Files, XML Schemata and Release Notes.
• Python scripts used in ELT scenarios.

The data in the "Code" section is organized according to the steps, along which the development of the lexicon progressed:

• Step 0: Encoding Crum as TEI XML
• Step 1: Creation of XML Schema
• Step 2: Matching the TLA Data Model
• Step 3: Standardizing the Spelling of Compounds
• Step 4: Releasing Coptic Lemma List (CLL) V2
• Step 5: Investigating polysemantic entries
• Step 6: Setting standard lemma forms and XML IDs
• Step 7: Releasing Coptic Lemma List (CLL) V2.1
• Step 8: Integrating Greek Loan Words from DDGLC Project
• Step 9: Releasing Comprehensive Coptic Lexicon (CCL) V1
• Step 10: Removing parenthesis (round brackets) from orthographic variants
• Step 11: Adopting the expression of “portmanteau” or “layered” forms
• Step 12: Releasing Comprehensive Coptic Lexicon (CCL) V1.2

The bugtracker of the Comprehensive Coptic Lexicon can be found at KELLIA's dictionary repository: https://github.com/KELLIA/dictionary/issues

Below is a brief description of each step.

Step 0: Encoding Crum as TEI XML

Summary:

• Dialectal and stative forms were encoded according to the “exclusivity” principle: e.g. included if the verb was attested in stative but not in infinitive or in Bohairic but not in Sahidic.
• Status nominalis / status pronominalis forms were not explicitly encoded.
• Verbal compounds included if the meaning could not be deduced from the constituent parts.
• Nominal compounds included.
• No loan words.

Step 1: Creation of XML Schema

Summary:

• Coptic Dictionary XML Schema created according to the TEI XML Dictionary Module guidelines.
• Controlled vocabulary for the "part of speech" and "subcategory" elements created, adopting the existing terms to the TLA vocabulary (German).

Step 2: Matching the TLA Data Model

Summary:

• Disambiguating the values for gender, number and dialect: separate entries were created in each case.
• Allowing a single "orth" per "form" only (one spelling pro word-form).
• Allowing a single "usg" per "form" only (one dialect entry pro word-form).
• Disambiguating the semantics of "form type="lemma"" tag. Reason: it had different meanings: a) referring to the whole compositum ("ϭⲓⲛⲱⲃϣ"), b) referrring to a part of a compositum ("ⲉⲓⲛⲉ"). In the latter case "form type="lemma"" was exchanged with "xr type="cf"".

Step 3: Standardizing the Spelling of Compounds

Summary:

• Standardizing the spelling of verbal compounds according to the rules outlined in “Verbal compounds.pdf”.
• Standardizing the spelling of nominal compounds according to the rules outlined in “Nominal compounds & other.pdf".
• Inserting cross-references to the parts of the compounds which were corrected.

Step 4: Releasing Coptic Lemma List (CLL) V2

Summary:

• A major release containing changes outlined in Steps 1-3.

Step 5: Investigating Polysemantic Entries

Summary:

• Investigating polysematic nouns and verbs in Coptic to facilitate the planned integration into the TLA.

Step 6: Setting Standard Lemma Forms and XML IDs

Summary:

• Defining a standard form (“Ansetzungsform”) for earch lemma entry.
• Setting unique entry IDs.
• Setting unique form IDs.
• Special mark-up for "multiword" expressions.

Step 7: Releasing Coptic Lemma List (CLL) V2.1

Summary:

• A major release containing changes outlined in Steps 5-6.

Step 8: Integrating Greek Loan Words from DDGLC Project

Summary:

• Matching the DDGLC and TLA datamodels.
• Source DDGLC data clean-up and conversion.
• Proofreading the converted data, whiсh necessitated major changes in the source data.
• Conversion and final output of the source data as TLA TEI XML.

Step 9: Releasing Comprehensive Coptic Lexicon (CCL) V1

Summary:

• Renaming "Coptic Lemma List" to "Comprehensive Coptic Lexicon", containing Greek loanwords in Coptic.
• Release of three datasets: Version 3 of the BBAW lexicon of Coptic Egyptian (former "Coptic Lemma List"), Version 1 of the DDGLC lexicon of Greek loan words in Coptic and Version 1 of the combined "Comprehensive Coptic Lexicon".
• New TLA TEI XML headers.
• Extended TLA TEI XML Schema.
• Released in Refubium Repository: https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/24570.

Step 10: Removing parenthesis (round brackets) from orthographic variants

Summary:

• Project description can be found in Wiki.
• Project changelog can also be found in Wiki.
• The following tasks were completed:
• • Bracket at word beginning and at word end: Task A1.1.
• • Bracket at word beginning but not at word end: Task A1.2.
• • Bracket NOT at word beginning and NOT preceded by a white space: Task A2.1.
• • Debugging: bracket NOT at word beginning: Task A2.2.
• • Debugging: the remaining forms containing brackets: Task A3.

Step 11: Adopting the expression of “portmanteau” or “layered” forms

Summary:

• The expression of grammatical information of “portmanteau” or “layered” forms, which contain two grammatical categories (possessive prefix, designating the possessed item, and possessive suffix, designating the possessor, e.g. ⲛⲁ- (C2353), ⲛⲟⲩ- (C2388), ⲡⲁ- (C2784), ⲡⲟⲩ- (C2787), ⲧⲁ- (C4005), ⲧⲟⲩ- (C11281)) ), was changed. For now a temporary solution was chosen – to relegate some of the grammatical information to the definition text in tag . The preferred solution is to bring the grammatical encoding in accordance with LEX-0.
• Project description can be found in Wiki.

Step 12: Releasing Comprehensive Coptic Lexicon (CCL) V1.2

Summary:

• A major release containing changes outlined in Steps 10-11.
• Additionally:
• • Unified the location of the written forms to "orth" tag only.
• • Assigned dialect information to Sahidic forms, which, perceived as default, did not have dialect explicitly encoded: "usg type="geo""S"/usg".
• • In line with LEX-0 conventions improved the structure of element, which now contains a unique ID and a single "cit type="translation"" tag.

Step 13: Parsing Funk's lexicon

Summary:

• Singled two dialects out of Funk's lexicon: Bohairic and Akhmimic.
• Created plain XML files where each element corresponds to a row in Funk.
• Merged elements with property "2" (form) into the corresponding elements with property "1" (lemma) assigning "part of speech" and "sense" values.
• Exported those as XLSX files for further analysis