On the principles of a digital text corpus : New opportunities in working on heroic epics of the Shors

This essay will use the Shor corpus as its main example, though the Teleut, Evenki, or Nenets corpora might easily have been chosen instead. The reasoning behind this choice is the fact that the whole project arose out of my long-term study of the Shor epics. Additionally, the Shor (like the Teleut)...

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Main Author: Funk, Dmitri A.
Language:English
Published: 2013
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10355/65325
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Summary:This essay will use the Shor corpus as its main example, though the Teleut, Evenki, or Nenets corpora might easily have been chosen instead. The reasoning behind this choice is the fact that the whole project arose out of my long-term study of the Shor epics. Additionally, the Shor (like the Teleut) materials belong for the most part to me, and I am the primary individual who has been working with them within the frame of this project. It is my hope that this single example will help readers better understand what our Corpus is able to do and how it has been organized. Note