SP12: The Social Cognition Parallax Interview Corpus (SCOPIC)

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ISBN 0-9973295-1-3

Editors

Danielle Barth, Nicholas Evans

Abstract

The Social Cognition Parallax Interview Corpus (SCOPIC) provides naturalistic but cross-linguistically-matched corpus data with enriched annotations of grammatical categories relevant to social cognition. By ‘parallax corpus’ we mean ‘broadly comparable formulations resulting from a comparable task’, to avoid the implications of ‘parallel corpus’ that there will be exact semantic equivalence across languages. The problem with that, from a semantic typologist’s point of view, is that it can only be achieved by privileging the semantic structure of the source language in the translations, and that it prevents us from studying the fundamental question of how languages – or the formulation practices of language communities – bias the expression of particular categories in language-specific ways. This volume will grow incrementally with new chapters added in coming years.

Contents

Front Matter

SCOPIC Design and Overview
Danielle Barth and Nicholas Evans, p. 1-21

Social Cognition in Dalabon
Nicholas Evans, p. 22-84

Auslan and Matukar Panau: A modality-agnostic look at quotatives
Gabrielle Hodge, Danielle Barth, & Lauren W Reed, p. 85-125

Syntactic embedding or parataxis? Corpus-based typology of complementation in language use
Yukinori Kimoto, Asako Shiohara, Danielle Barth, Nicholas Evans, Norikazu Kogura, I Wayan Arka, Desak Putu Eka Pratiwi, Yuki Kasuga, Carine Kawakami, Keita Kurabe, Heiko Narrog, Hiroki Nomoto, Hitomi Ono, Alan Rumsey, Andrea C. Schalley, Yanti, Akiko Yokoyama, p. 126-162

The Social Cognition Parallax Interview Corpus (SCOPIC) Project Guidelines
Danielle Barth, Nicholas Evans, Sonja Gipper, Stefan Schnell, Henrik Bergqvist, Mengistu Amberber, I Wayan Arka, Christian Döhler, Diana Forker, Volker Gast, Dolgor Guntsetseg, Gabrielle Hodge, Eri Kashima, Yukinori Kimoto, Norikazu Kogura, Dominique Knuchel, Inge Kral, Keita Kurabe, John Mansfield, Heiko Narrog, Desak Putu Eka Pratiwi, Hiroki Nomoto, Seongha Rhee, Alan San Rumsey, Lila Roque, Andrea C. Schalley, Asako Shiohara, Elena Skribnik, Olena Tykhostup, Saskia van Putten, Yanti, p. 163-237

The actual SCOPIC 1.0 corpus can be found here. Please cite the corpus as:
Barth, Danielle & Nicholas Evans. (2024). SCOPIC 1.0 corpus files. SocCog-corp01 at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/1YH7-J821