Language Documentation and Standards in Digital Humanities: TEI and the documentation of Mixtepec-Mixtec Jack Bowers To cite this version: Jack Bowers. Language Documentation and Standards in Digital Humanities: TEI and the documen- tation of Mixtepec-Mixtec. Computation and Language [cs.CL]. École Pratique des Hauts Études, 2020. English. tel-03131936 HAL Id: tel-03131936 https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-03131936 Submitted on 4 Feb 2021 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Préparée à l’École Pratique des Hautes Études Language Documentation and Standards in Digital Humanities: TEI and the documentation of Mixtepec-Mixtec Soutenue par Composition du jury : Jack BOWERS Guillaume, JACQUES le 8 octobre 2020 Directeur de Recherche, CNRS Président Alexis, MICHAUD Chargé de Recherche, CNRS Rapporteur École doctorale n° 472 Tomaž, ERJAVEC Senior Researcher, Jožef Stefan Institute Rapporteur École doctorale de l’École Pratique des Hautes Études Enrique, PALANCAR Directeur de Recherche, CNRS Examinateur Karlheinz, MOERTH Senior Researcher, Austrian Center for Digital Humanities Spécialité and Cultural Heritage Examinateur Linguistique Emmanuel, SCHANG Maître de Conférence, Université D’Orléans Examinateur Benoit, SAGOT Chargé de Recherche, Inria Examinateur Laurent, ROMARY Directeur de recherche, Inria Directeur de thèse 1. Introduction to Project 7 2. Introduction to Language 11 2.1 Brief Overview of Mixtepec-Mixtec Language Typology and Features 13 2.1.1 Phonological System 14 2.1.1.1 Consonants 14 2.1.1.1.1 Stops 15 2.1.1.1.2 Nasals 16 2.1.1.1.3 Liquids, Trills, Taps and Flaps 17 2.1.1.1.4 Fricatives 17 2.1.1.1.5 Glides 18 2.1.1.1.6 Affricates 19 2.1.1.1.7 Prenasalized phones 19 2.1.1.1.8 Prespirantized phones 21 2.1.1.1.9 Labialized phones 21 2.1.1.1.10 Intervocalic sonorant gemmination 22 2.1.1.2 Vowels 23 2.1.1.2.1 Close front vowels 24 2.1.1.2.2 Close back rounded vowels 24 2.1.1.2.3 Close-mid front vowels 25 2.1.1.2.4 Close-mid back vowels 25 2.1.1.2.5 Open Central vowels 26 2.1.1.2.6 Vowel Harmony 26 2.1.1.2.7 Passive Nasalization 27 2.1.1.2.8 Passive Glottalization 28 2.1.1.3 Tones 29 2.1.2 Basics of Information Structure 33 2.1.3 Marking Person and Pronouns 34 2.1.3.1 Demonstrative Pronouns and Components 37 2.1.4 Copular and Related Expressions 39 2.1.5 Noun Phrases, Possession and Related Expressions 41 2.1.6 Conjunctions and Adverbs 45 2.1.7 Verbal Inflections: Aspect and Mood 46 1 2.1.7.1 Imperfective 48 2.1.7.2 Perfective 49 2.1.7.3 Potential 50 2.1.7.4 Imperatives 52 2.1.7.5 Habitual 53 2.1.7.6 Modals 53 2.1.7.7 Negation 55 2.1.8 Derivation 57 2.1.8.1 Causative 57 2.1.8.2 Iterative 58 2.1.8.3 Inchoative 58 2.1.8.4 Combinations of Derivatives 59 Final Notes on Linguistic Description 59 3. Mixtepec-Mixtec Documentation Project Origins and Methods 59 4. On the Intersections and Divergences of Language Documentation, Description, Digital Humanities and Corpus Linguistics 65 4.1 On Language Documentation and Digital Humanities 66 4.2 On Language Description vs Language Documentation 68 4.3 Language Resources and Data 70 4.3.2 Metadata 71 4.3.3 On Data Formats: Files and Markup 73 4.4 Standards 75 4.4.1 Metadata Standards 75 4.4.1.1 OLAC 76 4.4.1.2 IMDI 77 4.4.1.3 TEI 78 4.4.1.4 AILLA 82 4.4.1.5 CMDI 82 4.4.1.6 Issues in Metadata Compatibility and Interchange 83 4.4.2 Standards and Formats for Corpora and Time-aligned Speech 84 4.4.2.1 Time-aligned Transcriptions: Macrostructure 84 4.4.2.1.1 ELAN 87 4.4.2.1.2 Praat 88 4.4.2.1.3 EXMARaLDA 89 4.4.2.2 Time-aligned Transcriptions: Microstructure 90 2 4.4.2.3 ISO 24624:2016 and TEI Representation of Spoken Language Transcription 92 4.4.2.4 Corpora and Annotation 103 4.4.3 Description Data Formats and Standards 118 4.4.3.1 Lexicons and Dictionaries 118 4.4.3.1.1 TEI Dictionaries 119 4.4.3.1.2 Lexical Markup Framework (LMF) 123 4.4.3.1.3 LIFT 125 4.4.3.2 Grammatical and Other Annotation Inventories and Features 127 4.4.3.2.1 ISOcat 127 4.4.3.2.2 Ontologies and Other Annotation Tagsets 128 4.4.3.2.3 TEI and ISO 24610-1 Feature Structures 130 4.4.3.2.3.4 Grammatical and conceptual features in FLEx 133 4.4.3.2.3.5 Controlled Vocabularies in ELAN 135 4.4.4 Tools, Formats, Standards and Interoperability 136 4.4.4.1 Spoken language transcription tools 137 4.4.4.2 Lexicon and Dictionary Creation and Management Tools 144 4.4.4.3 Presentation Formatting 147 4.4.4.4 Interoperability, Interchange and Workflows 150 4.4.4.5 On Issues Related to Choosing Data Structure and Tools for LD 157 4.4.5 Publishing and Obtaining of Existing Language Resources 158 4.5 Ethical Issues in Language Documentation and Linguistics 160 5. Overview of Mixtecan Literature and Resources 162 5.1 Codices 163 5.2 Colonial Mixtec 167 5.4 Brief Overview of Mixtecan Linguistics Literature 167 5.4.1 Other Mixtec Related Projects 168 5.5 Mixtepec-Mixtec Literature 171 6. On the Corpus: Encoding, Annotation, Contents 172 6.1 Audio and Video Repository 172 6.2 Text-based Resources 174 6.2.1 SIL Text Content and Structure 176 6.2.2 Text Document Metadata: <teiHeader> 177 6.2.3 SIL Documents: Basic TEI Document Structure 179 6.2.3.1 SIL Document Types: Pedagogical Reference 180 3 6.2.3.2 SIL Document Types: Activity Books 183 6.2.4 Speaker Authored Text 186 6.2.5 Other text resources: Conocelos.MX 187 6.3 Spoken Language Transcriptions and TEI Encoding 190 6.3.1 Praat Annotation Schemes 190 6.3.2 Transcribing Tones 194 6.3.3 TEI Output of Praat Transcriptions 194 6.3.3.1 Timelines and Transcriptions in TEI 195 6.3.3.2 Linking and Representing Phonetic and Orthographic Forms 196 6.3.4 Representing Spoken Resource Metadata 197 6.3.4.1 Provenance of Corpus Files: <sourceDesc> 198 6.3.4.2 Pathways to Linked Files: <prefixDef> 198 6.3.4.3 Metadata for File Creation: <recordingStmt> 199 6.3.4.4 Speech Event Typology: <taxonomy> 200 6.4 Annotation Mechanisms 202 6.4.1 Feature Structures and Annotation Inventory 202 6.4.2 Standoff Annotation: <spanGrp> 204 6.4.3 Linking Parallel Content: <linkGrp> 205 6.4.4 Translations 206 6.4.5 Grammar, Information Structure and Interlinear Glossed Text 208 6.4.6 Annotating Tone and Morphological Features 211 6.4.7 Annotating Semantics 216 4.6.7.1 Enhancing Grammatical Categories with Semantics 219 4.6.7.2 Applying Semantic Theory to Corpus Annotation 221 4.6.7.3 Final Remarks on Semantic Annotation 227 7. Overview of the Mixtepec-Mixtec TEI Dictionary 229 7.1 Metadata and Linking Resources 229 7.1.1 Lexical Features and Terminology Inventory 230 7.1.2 Bibliographic Sources 231 7.1.3 Personography 232 7.1.4 External Corpus and Media Files 232 7.2 Forms and Grammar 234 7.2.1 Variation, Uncertain, and Conflicting Forms 237 7.2.1.1 Orthographic Variation 237 4 7.2.1.2 Phonetic Variation 239 7.2.2 Entries with Collocates 240 7.2.3 Inflection and Paradigms 241 7.3 Related Entries 243 7.4 Sense 244 7.4.1 Links to External Knowledge Sources 244 7.4.2 Translations 245 7.4.3 Definitions 246 7.4.4 Examples 246 7.4.5 Images 247 7.4.6 Semantics and Cultural Issues in Language Documentation 248 7.4.7 Semantic Relations and Domain 249 7.5 Etymology 252 7.5.1 Inheritance, Cognates and Cross-references 252 7.5.1.1 Reconstructed Forms 253 7.5.1.2 Historically Attested Forms from Alvarado Yucu Ndaa Vocabulary (1593) 254 7.5.1.3 Cognates 255 7.5.2 Borrowing 255 7.5.3 Onomatopoeia 256 7.5.4 Phonological Changes and Multiple Etymological Processes 256 7.5.5 Sense-related Etymologies 257 7.5.5.1 Metaphor 257 7.5.5.2 Metonymy 259 7.5.6 Complex Etymologies: Derivation and Metonymy 261 7.6 Human Oriented Output 262 8. Conclusion 264 9. Bibliography 268 1. Introduction au projet 294 2. Introduction à la langue 298 2.1 Bref aperçu de la typologie et des caractéristiques de la langue mixtèque de Mixtepec 301 2.1.1 Tonalités lexicales 301 2.1.2 Principes fondamentaux de la structure de l’information 304 2.1.3 Marque de la personne et pronoms 305 2.1.3.1 Pronoms démonstratifs et composants 308 5 2.1.4 Copules et mots apparentés (cognats) 310 2.1.5 Syntagmes nominaux, expression de la possession et notions apparentées 312 2.1.6 Conjonctions et adverbes 316 2.1.7 Déclinaisons verbales : aspect et mode 318 2.1.7.1 Imperfectif 319 2.1.7.2 Perfectif 320 2.1.7.3 Potentiel 322 2.1.7.4 Impératifs 323 2.1.7.5 Habituel 324 2.1.7.6 Modaux 325 2.1.7.7 Négation 327 2.1.8 Dérivation 329 2.1.8.1 Causalité 329 2.1.8.2 Itération 330 2.1.8.3 Inchoation 331 2.1.8.4 Combinaisons de formes dérivatives 331 2.2 Remarques finales sur la description linguistique 332 3.