Experimental corpus of the Lithuanian local dialect of Puńsk in Poland : examples of the lexical and semantic annotation
LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Anotacija; Eksperimentinis tarminis tekstynas; Lenkijos Punsko lietuvių tarmė; Punsko šnekta Lenkijoje; Tekstynas; Annotation; Corpora; Experimental dialectal corpus; Lithuanian local dialect of Punsk in Poland.
ENThe dialectal material collected for nearly 30 years was partly listed during the last two years, provided with annotation and loaded to the programs organising the resources (MonoConc and ParaConc). A basic pillar of the corpus is subcorpus A containing the utterances of the Lithuanians of Puńsk using the local dialect. The two other subcorpora came into existence as secondary. It turned out that besides the utterances of the Lithuanians of Puńsk in the local dialect there are plenty of utterances of these Lithuanians in Polish included in the resources. Taking into account the fact that it is not entirely correct Polish, there was a decision to include also this material in the corpus as an additional pillar marked as subcorpus B. As concluded, the material collected in subcorpus B can be useful for researchers of the Polish language on Podlasie and the Suwałki region, and for linguists dealing with the problems of interference. The recordings also include utterances given by Lithuanians in the local dialect (in Lithuanian), with simultaneous translation into Polish (e.g. at formal meetings where Poles participate).So, these texts were also included, moreover, they have been supplemented with bilingual materials coming from the local publishing companies and websites run by Puńsk Lithuanians. The resources (subcorpus A) collected in ECorp-of-Punsk are extremely useful, since they reflect the changes lasting nearly thirty years in the local dialect. The dialect evolution was largely forced by external processes, such as the change of the political system of the Republic of Poland at the turn of the eighties and nineties of the past century, the regaining of independence by Lithuania, the accession of Poland and Lithuania to the European Union, the border opening for the east and the west (the Schengen area), moreover new economic conditions, cultural changes and the accelerating technical revolution. The changes recorded in ECorp-of-Punsk confirm the thesis that the local dialect is disappearing, is becoming similar to the standard Lithuanian language. [From the publication]
