LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 14:3 March 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

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Corpus in Persian Lexicography

Zahra Zare and M. Balakumar

Abstract

In linguistics studies, the corpus is a collection of written or oral texts that can be used as the base for analysis and description of language. With the help of corpus, we can study the phonetic, syntactic, social and other aspects of languages. Linguists emphasize the importance of language corpus in their researches. In this article, at first we discuss the resources and component elements of corpus including the written and oral resources of the corpus in Persian lexicons in the Indian subcontinent and cotemporary lexicons of Iran. A sample of the corpus in the following Dictionaries of Persian, viz., Dehkhoda, Moein and Sokhan lexicons and some examples of computer corpus of Persian language are also given. The non-electronic corpora created prior to computer era are reviewed. Electronic corpora are created with the help of computer which are easy to access for analysis.

Key words: corpus, language lexicons, Persian Lexicography, computer

Introduction

Meyer (.2002), said: “A corpus is a collection of texts or part of texts upon which some general linguistics analysis can be collected “.

It is applied to a collection of written or spoken language data that could be employed to describe and analyze a language. Undoubtedly, any research on languages and their description and analysis, including lexicography, grammar compilation, dialectology, etc. will not yield useful results without relying on corpora. (Khatibi, 2007, p.14).

Many linguists have emphasized the importance of corpus in most of their researches in the past. However, relying on real linguistic data has become common in the modern era and has turned into one of the essential requirements of many theoretical and applicable studies such as studies on dialectology, grammar compilation, and quick examination of linguistic data. Thus, a specialized branch in the field of computational linguistics has emerged. This new branch was created under the name of corpus linguistics in the last decades of the twentieth century and became one of the most active and applicable branches of linguistics within a short period of time. The term "corpus" is especially used by structural linguists, who always emphasize that the description of a language or dialect should be based on collecting and analyzing data (Assi, 2000).

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Zahra Zare
Ph.D. Research Scholar
Department of Studies in Linguistics, KIKS
University of Mysore
Manasagangotri
Mysore-570006
Karnataka, India
zahrazare92@yahoo.com

Dr. M. Balakumar
Reader-cum-Research Officer
Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL)
Masagangotri
Mysore-570006
Karnataka, India
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