RNC News

The Russian National corpus now has a brand new historical subcorpus, the one of East Slavic Epigraphy (Inscriptions). 

This corpus includes 663 morphologically annotated, mainly brief texts dating back to the 11th-15th centuries from the territories of modern Ukraine, Russia and Belarus, as well as those found outside Eastern Europe, as in Germany, France, or Turkey. These are inscriptions on the walls of churches, on stones, and on objects found during excavations or stored for many centuries. This is a valuable source both on the history of everyday Old East Slavic speech and on the existence of ecclesiastical, literary and folklore texts. From each text users may navigate to the epigraphica.ru database, where more details about the text and photographs are included.

The Old East Slavic corpus has been updated. Its size exceeded 800 thousand tokens. The corpus now features new texts. These are several dozens of official texts dating back to 12th-14th centuries: princely laws, charters from Novgorod, Polotsk, Ukraine and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. For the first time the early corpus includes the ancestors of such modern Russian words as блистать, больница, великолепие, доход, дружить, наслаждение, околица, простоволосый, ящерица.

The Russian and English-Russian parallel MultiPARCs have navigated to the new interface. Word at a glance and Get overview features are now available.