%0 Conference Proceedings %A Tjuka, Annika %A Weißmann, Lena %A Prince, Kilu von %+ Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society %T Tagging modality in Oceanic languages of Melanesia : %G eng %U https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0009-02F8-D %R 10.18653/v1/W19-4008 %D 2019 %Z Review method: no-review %B The 13th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (The LAW XIII) %Z date of event: 2019-08-01 - %C Florence, Italy %X Primary data from small, low-resource languages of Oceania have only recently become available through language documentation. In our study, we explore corpus data
of five Oceanic languages of Melanesia which
are known to be mood-prominent (in the sense
of Bhat, 1999). In order to find out more
about tense, aspect, modality, and polarity, we
tagged these categories in a subset of our corpora. For the category of modality, we developed a novel tag set (MelaTAMP, 2017),
which categorizes clauses into factual, possible, and counterfactual. Based on an analysis of the inter-annotator consistency, we argue that our tag set for the modal domain is
efficient for our subject languages and might
be useful for other languages and purposes. %B Proceedings of the 13th Linguistic Annotation Workshop %P 65 - 70 %I Association for Computational Linguistics