DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15489124
title: The morphologically glossed Rigveda - The Zurich annotation corpus revised and extended. Hosted by VedaWeb - Online Research Platform for Old Indic Texts.

description: This file contains morphological and lexicographic annotations for the Rigveda. It was created in the DFG-funded research project Vedaweb and used as source data for the linguistic research platform vedaweb.uni-koeln.de.

Prof. Dr. Paul Widmer and Dr. Salvatore Scarlata from the "Institut für Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft" (Universität Zürich) provided the VedaWeb project a Filemaker file that was later transformed in Cologne into an Excel file. This data contained a version of the Rigveda by Prof. Dr. A. Lubotsky ("Indo-European Linguistics", Leiden University) that had been morphosytactically annotated over the course of more than 10 years at the University of Zurich. It also contained for each token, if available, a reference to an entry in Grassmann's dictionary for the Rigveda.

 

Modifications made by Jakob Halfmann and Natalie Korobzow to the data in 2020:

Disambiguation of the relevant categories, if unspecified in Zurich data, according to the Grassmann dictionary (updates from 6th edition partially included up to page 274):



case, gender and number for nouns, pronouns (columns G–I)

number, person, mood, tense and voice for verbs (columns I–M) up to line 109216

case, gender, number, tense and voice for participles (columns G–I, L–M) up to line 109216

absolutives are marked as Abs. in columns N and V

Inconsistencies between the original file from Zurich and the Grassmann dictionary as well as internal inconsistencies in Grassmann are noted in column AE, whenever they were noticed.

Zurich data was overwritten by conflicting Grassmann data in columns G–M but retained elsewhere.

Verb classes according to Whitney (1885) and Jamison (1983) for class 10 in column Y, differences in root spelling between Whitney and Grassmann are noted in column Z. All potential verb classes provided by Whitney are given for every occurrence of the root.

Local particles and verbal forms containing them are marked as LP in column AF.

Comparatives and superlatives are marked as such in column X and desideratives as Des. in column Y.


 

Modifications made by Anna Fischer (data transformation, technical realisation) to the data:

New structure of data table for linguistic annotations with new column titles:



A - "VERS_NR": renamed column (from "belege::stelleMMSSSRR")

B - "PADA_NR": renamed column (from "belege::pada")

C - "PADA_TEXT_LUBOTSKY": renamed column (from "belege::lubotskypada")

D - "TOKEN_NR_VERS": renamed column (from "belege::wortnummer rc")

E - "TOKEN_NR_PADA": renamed column (from "belege::wortnummer pada")

F - "FORM": renamed column (from "belege::form")

G - "KASUS": renamed column (from "belege::kasus")

H - "GENUS": renamed column (from "belege::genus")

I - "NUMERUS": renamed column (from "belege::numerus")

J - "PERSON": renamed column (from "belege::person")

K - "TEMPUS": moved and renamed column (from L "belege::tempus")

L - "PRAESENSKLASSE": created new column for present stem class for each form

M - "LEMMA_PRAESENSKLASSEN": created column for present stem classes of respective lemma: Moved and renamed column (from Y "formen::zusätzliche merkmale verb"), moved values "Abs." and "Inf." to column P "INFINIT", moved values "Prek." and "si-Ipv." to column N "MOOD", moved value "Des." to column Q "ABGELEITETE_KONJUGATION": moved value "se-Form" to column W "WEITERE_WERTE"

N - "MODUS": moved and renamed column (from K "belege::modus")

O - "DIATHESE": moved and renamed column (from M "belege::diathese")

P - "INFINIT": created new column for infinite forms "Abs.", "Inf.", "Ptz.", "ta-Ptz.", "na-Ptz."

Q - "ABGELEITETE_KONJUGATION": created new column for secondary conjugation "Des.", "Int.", "Kaus."

R - "GRADUS": created new column for degree: "Comp.", "Sup."

S - "LOKALPARTIKEL": moved and renamed column (from AF "LP")

T - "LEMMA_ZÜRICH": moved and renamed column (from AA "lemmata klassisch::lemma")

U - "LEMMA_ZÜRICH_LEMMATYP": moved and renamed column (from AB "lemmata klassisch::lemmatyp")

V - "LEMMA_ZÜRICH_BEDEUTUNG": moved and renamed column (from AC "lemmata klassisch::bedeutung")

W - "WEITERE_WERTE": created new column for all miscellaneous values: e.g. "Hyperchar.", "n-haltig", "se-Form"

X - "KOMMENTAR": created new column merging former columns Z "formen::HELPformbestimmung", AD "lemmata klassisch::HELPbedeutung" and AE "anmerkungen abweichungen"


Columns that were removed due to redundant information:



"formen::zusätzliche merkmale nomen": values "superlative" And "comparative" were renamed "sup." and "comp." and moved to new column R "GRADUS", all other values were moved to new column for miscellaneous W "WEITERE_WERTE"

"belege::belegbestimmung summe simpel": values "Ptz.", "ta-Ptz." and "na-Ptz." were moved to new new column P "INFINIT"

"belege::kasus bestof"

"belege::genus bestof"

"belege::numerus bestof"

"belege::person bestof"

"belege::modus bestof"

"belege::tempus bestof"

"belege::diathese bestof"

"belege::belegbestimmung bestof summe sophistiziert"


 

Revisions and additions made by Antje Casaretto to the data in 2023:



F-T: - revision and correction (wherever necessary) of all annotations (books 1-7)

G,H,I - disambiguation of case forms, reg. pronouns and nominal forms, if unspecified in Zurich data (books 1-7)

L - disambiguation of present stem classes (book 7 and book 1 up to line 21050 vers 01.125.01)

M - disambiguation of denominal verbs from primary verbs of the 10th class (books 1-10)

N - disambiguation of precative and optative forms wherever possible (books 1-7)

Q - new annotations for "Int." (intensives) and "Kaus." (causatives) (books 1-7)


 

Revisions and additions made by Antje Casaretto to the data in 2024 with support in data modeling and automation by Anna Fischer:



F-T: revision and correction (wherever necessary) of all annotations (books 8-10)

G,H,I: disambiguation of case and gender forms in nominal and pronominal forms, if unspecified in Zurich data (books 8-10)

L, M: disambiguation of present stem classes (books 1-10)

N: disambiguation of precative and optative forms wherever possible (books 8-10)

P: new annotations for "Gdv." (gerundives)

Q: new annotations for "Den." (denominatives) (books 1-10) and further annotations of “Kaus.” (causatives) and “Int.” (intensives) (books 8-10)

T: revision of lemmatization (books 1-10)

V: update of meanings according to revised lemmatization; minimal revision

W: revised annotation of ending -se (“se-Form”) (books 1-10); no systematic revision

X: no systematic revision

A-U: general revision of formal inconsistencies and typing errors (book 1-10)


 

Revisions made by Natalie Korobzov and Pascal Coenen to the data in 2024 with computational support by Anna Fischer:



Y - "LEMMA_GRASSMANN_ID": new column for references to Grassmann dictionary (books 1-10) and revision of Grassmann references
description: Abbreviations




Description
Code TEI and platform
Code vedaweb_zurich.xlsx
Category TEI and platform
Category vedaweb_zurich.xlsx
Comment




first person
1
1.
person
PERSON
 


second person
2
2.
person
PERSON
 


third person
3
3.
person
PERSON
 


irregular form
-
ir.
-
PRAESENSKLASSE
present stems classes not imported in TEI or platform (due 2025)


present stem class 1
-
1
-
PRAESENSKLASSE
present stems classes not imported in TEI or platform (due 2025)


present stem class 2
-
2
-
PRAESENSKLASSE
present stems classes not imported in TEI or platform (due 2025)


present stem class 3
-
3
-
PRAESENSKLASSE
present stems classes not imported in TEI or platform (due 2025)


present stem class 4
-
4
-
PRAESENSKLASSE
present stems classes not imported in TEI or platform (due 2025)


present stem class 5
-
5
-
PRAESENSKLASSE
present stems classes not imported in TEI or platform (due 2025)


present stem class 6
-
6
-
PRAESENSKLASSE
present stems classes not imported in TEI or platform (due 2025)


present stem class 7
-
7
-
PRAESENSKLASSE
present stems classes not imported in TEI or platform (due 2025)


present stem class 8
-
8
-
PRAESENSKLASSE
present stems classes not imported in TEI or platform (due 2025)


present stem class 9
-
9
-
PRAESENSKLASSE
present stems classes not imported in TEI or platform (due 2025)


present stem class 10
-
10
-
PRAESENSKLASSE
present stems classes not imported in TEI or platform (due 2025)


ablative
ABL
Abl.
case
KASUS
 


accusative
ACC
Akk.
case
KASUS
 


active
ACT
Akt.
voice
DIATHESE
 


aorist
AOR
Aor.
tense
TEMPUS
 


causative
CAUS
Kaus.
secondary conjugation
ABGELEITETE_KONJUGATION
 


comparative
CMP
comp.
degree
GRADUS
 


conditional
COND
Kond.
mood
MODUS
 


converb/absolutiva
CVB
Abs.
non-finite
INFINIT
 


dative
DAT
Dat.
case
KASUS
 


denominative
DEN
Den.
secondary conjugation
ABGELEITETE_KONJUGATION
 


desiderative
DES
Des.
secondary conjugation
ABGELEITETE_KONJUGATION
 


dual
DU
Du.
number
NUMERUS
 


feminine
F
f.
gender
GENUS
 


future
FUT
Fut.
tense
TEMPUS
 


gerundive
GDV
Gdv.
non-finite
INFINIT
 


genitive
GEN
Gen.
case
KASUS
 


imperative
IMP
Ipv.
mood
MODUS
 


imperative si
IMP-si
si-Ipv.
mood
MODUS
 


indicative
IND
Ind.
mood
MODUS
 


infinitive
INF
Inf.
non-finite
INFINIT
 


injuctive
INJ
Inj.
mood
MODUS
 


instrumental
INS
Instr.
case
KASUS
 


intensive
INT
Int.
secondary conjugation
ABGELEITETE_KONJUGATION
 


imperfect
IPRF
Imperf.
tense
TEMPUS
 


locative
LOC
Lok.
case
KASUS
 


local particle
LP
LP
local particle
LOKALPARTIKEL
 


masculine
M
m.
gender
GENUS
 


middle voice
MED
med.
voice
DIATHESE
 


neuter
N
n.
gender
GENUS
 


nominative
NOM
Nom.
case
KASUS
 


optative
OPT
Opt.
mood
MODUS
 


passive voice
PASS
pass.
voice
DIATHESE
 


plural
PL
Pl.
number
NUMERUS
 


past perfect
PLUPRF
Pluperf.
tense
TEMPUS
 


precative
PREC
Prek.
mood
MODUS
 


perfect
PRF
Perf.
tense
TEMPUS
 


present
PRS
Präs.
tense
TEMPUS
 


participle
PTCP
Ptz.
non-finite
INFINIT
 


na participle perfective passive
PTCP-na
na-Ptz.
non-finite
INFINIT
 


ta participle perfective passive
PTCP-ta
ta-Ptz.
non-finite
INFINIT
 


subjunctive
SBJV
Konj.
mood
MODUS
 


singular
SG
Sg.
number
NUMERUS
 


superlative
SUP
sup.
degree
GRADUS
 


vocative
VOC
Vok.
case
KASUS