RNC News

The Multimedia corpus has been switched to a new interface. Now the corpus search is redesigned, the "Word at a Glance" service is available. 

A special feature of the corpus is the multimedia search functionality. Three search queries may be specified simultaneously: for words, gestures and speech acts. You will find clips where both video/audio and text match these queries: for example, those with the preposition за in speech and тост (toast) as gesture.

Please note that by default the form hides some of the conditions for words, gestures and speech act. One can add these conditions by clicking the “Add Conditions” button. 

For example, to find clips in which somebody moves their head in a certain way, you need to add two conditions in the Gestures section: for the Main organ and for the Gesture direction. Then you may specify, respectively, голова (head) and из стороны в сторону (side to side) as features. To find clips where people whisper, please add a condition for the Manner of speech to the search form and select the value шепот (whisper).

Additionally, you can set conditions describing the vocalic and orthoepic structure of words.

The annual update of the Birchbark letters corpus is released. Fifteen medieval letters found in Veliky Novgorod and Staraia Russa last year - and yet two more awaiting academic publication since 2021 - are now simultaneously available in the RNC and in the gramoty.ru database. The work on the corpus of birchbark letters was supported by a grant from the Russian Science Foundation (Project 19-18-00352 "Vernacular writing of Old Rus' of the 11-15 centuries (birchbark letters and epigraphy): new sources and research methods"). An illustrated story about the findings of the last year can be read on the Arzamas website.