The “Adjective-Adverb Interfaces in Romance” database is an annotated and partly-lemmatised corpus of Romance adjectives used in adverbial functions (e.g. Fr. voler haut, aller droit, also as modifiers of other word classes than the verb, e.g. the adjective in Sp. es cosa harto seria) and as part of prepositional adverbials (Pt. de novo, Sp. a ciegas). It integrates several corpora of different Romance languages (French, Italian varieties, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish) and Latin. Currently (version 2021), the database comprises a total of ca. 35,000 annotated examples.
A search interface allows for queries in each separate corpus as well as in freely combined corpora. Adverbs are tagged according to a shared annotation model, using the same categories. Thus, the annotation model offers a cross-linguistic categorization for the multifunctional word-class “adverb” based on its forms, functions and meanings. In the future, the corpus may be enlarged with new datasets using the same annotation model.
Corpora
Fr_A_DHAA
Corpus of French “verb + adjective-adverb” phrases from the 11th century until the 20th century, database used for the Dictionnaire historique de l’adjectif-adverbe.
Hummel, M. et al. (2019a). Corpus French Dictionnaire historique de l’adjectif-adverbe. 2nd version. AAIF-Database.
Types of adjective - lemmata:
All words:
Fr_A_Web
Corpus of colloquial French “verb + adjective-adverb” phrases from the 21st century taken from Internet (blogs, forums).
Hummel, Martin et al. (2020). Corpus of French Adjective-Adverbs in Informal Texts from the Web. AAIF-Database.
Types of adjective - lemmata:
All words:
It_A_aaif
Corpus of adjective-adverbs in southern varieties of Italy: dialect literature from Naples (14th to 21st century), Sicilia, Calabria and Salento (20th and 21st century).
Ledgeway, Adam & Gerhalter, Katharina (2020): Corpus of Adjective-Adverbs in Southern Varieties of Italy. AAIF Database.
Types of adjective - lemmata:
All words:
Lt_P_aaif
Corpus of Latin Prepositional Adverbials with adjectival core: examples found in literary texts in the Thesaurus Lingue Latinae (Early, Classical and Imperial Latin).
Solari Jarque, Nicolás (2021): Corpus of Latin Prepositional Adverbials with Adjectival Core. AAIF Database.
Types of adjective - lemmata:
All words:
Pt_APM_DeG
Corpus of adjective-adverbs, mente-adverbs and prepositional phrases in 20th century Brazilian Portuguese: spoken and written language documented in the corpus Discurso & Gramática.
Votre, Sebastião et al. (2020): Corpus of Brazilian Portuguese Adjective-Adverbs, mente-Adverbs and Prepositional Phrases in Corpus Discurso & Gramática. AAIF Database.
Types of adjective - lemmata:
All words:
Ro_AP_aaif
Corpus of Old Romanian (16th to 19th century) adjective-adverbs, derived adverbs and prepositional phrases in literary texts.
Chircu, Adrian (2020): Corpus of Old Romanian Adjective-Adverbs, Derived Adverbs and Prepositional Phrases. AAIF Database.
Types of adjective - lemmata:
All words:
Sp_AP_Cordiam
Corpus of Spanish adjective-adverbs and prepositional phrases in American Spanish from 16th to 19th century, collected from the CORDIAM database.
Striedner, Pascal et al (2019): Corpus of Spanish Adjective-Adverbs and Prepositional Phrases in CORDIAM. AAIF-Database.
Types of adjective - lemmata:
All words:
Sp_AP_SH3
Corpus of Spanish adjective-adverbs and prepositional phrases in Spain and Mexico from 13th to 21st century, database used for the Sintaxis Histórica III.
Gerhalter, Katharina et al. (2020). Corpus of Spanish Adjective-Adverbs in Diachrony (for Sintaxis Histórica III). AAIF-Database.
Types of adjective - lemmata:
All words:
Sp_A_CDH
Corpus of Spanish “verb + adjective-adverb” phrases from the 13th century until the 21st century, collected from the CDH nuclear database.
Gerhalter, Katharina et al. (2020): Corpus of Spanish ”Verb + Adjective-Adverbs” in CDH. 2nd version. AAIF-Database.
Types of adjective - lemmata:
All words: