16th Century Welsh Translations: Part-of-Speech Tagged Corpus

Name: 16th Century Welsh Translations: Part-of-Speech Tagged Corpus
Published: 2026-07-10
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

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Persistent identifier: doi:10.60507/FK2/N9MZ8E
Published version: 1.0
Publication date: 2026-07-10
License: CC BY 4.0

Description

This dataset contains part-of-speech (POS) tagged Welsh texts from the sixteenth century. The corpus comprises 22 Welsh translations and one original Welsh composition. The translations render religious, doctrinal, narrative, and didactic prose from Latin and English source texts; the original composition incorporates translated quotations from biblical and patristic sources. The texts are drawn from both manuscript and early printed sources dating approximately from 1508 to 1612. The dataset is intended to support linguistic, philological, and Digital Humanities research, including historical morphology and syntax, translation studies, and corpus-based analysis. The files are not intended to function as critical or diplomatic editions.

Creators

Sackmann, Raphael
Parina, Elena
Meelen, Marieke

Keywords

Welsh, Translations, Part-of-Speech Tagging

Files

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Citation

Sackmann, Raphael; Parina, Elena; Meelen, Marieke, 2026-07-10, 16th Century Welsh Translations: Part-of-Speech Tagged Corpus, doi:10.60507/FK2/N9MZ8E, V1.0

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Citation Date	2026-07-10
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Title title

16th Century Welsh Translations: Part-of-Speech Tagged Corpus

Author author

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Sackmann, Raphael
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University of Marburg
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Dataset Contact datasetContact

Dataset Contact Name
Parina, Elena
Dataset Contact Affiliation
University of Bonn
Dataset Contact Email
eparina@uni-bonn.de

Ds Description dsDescription

Ds Description Value
This dataset contains part-of-speech (POS) tagged Welsh texts from the sixteenth century. The corpus comprises 22 Welsh translations and one original Welsh composition. The translations render religious, doctrinal, narrative, and didactic prose from Latin and English source texts; the original composition incorporates translated quotations from biblical and patristic sources. The texts are drawn from both manuscript and early printed sources dating approximately from 1508 to 1612. The dataset is intended to support linguistic, philological, and Digital Humanities research, including historical morphology and syntax, translation studies, and corpus-based analysis. The files are not intended to function as critical or diplomatic editions.

Subject subject

Arts and Humanities

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Subject Refinement Value
Celtic Studies

Free Keyword freeKeyword

Free Keyword Value
Welsh
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Translations
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Part-of-Speech Tagging

Publication publication

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Parina, Elena; Poppe, Erich: Abschlussbericht für die DFG-Projekte "Der walisische Beitrag zu den Übersetzungskulturen der Frühen Neuzeit: Strategien des Übersetzens ins Kymrische im 16. Jahrhundert" (2018-2021) und "Frühneuzeitliche Übersetzungskulturen von Wales: Aufbrüche und Kontinuitäten" (2021-2025).
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10.48565/bonndoc-904
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Language language

Welsh

Depositor depositor

Parina, Elena

Date Of Deposit dateOfDeposit

2026-03-30

Related Material relatedMaterial

Parina, Elena und Lara Geinitz. 2020. Val i may ysgrifenedig. Derivatives with suffix -edig in three Early Modern Welsh texts. Studia Celto-Slavica 11, 91–109.
Parina, Elena. 2022. Relative clauses with overt marking in Early Modern Welsh. In Journal of Historical Syntax 6(10), 1–23. https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/hs/index.php/hs/article/view/106.
Poppe, Erich und Raphael Sackmann. 2024. Style and syntax in Roger Smyth’s Early-Modern Welsh paratexts (1609–1612). Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie 71, 285–326.
Poppe, Erich. 2022. Coordination and verbal nouns in subordinate clauses in Early Modern Welsh Biblical texts. Journal of Historical Syntax 6(9), 1–44. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18148/hs/2022.v6i4-11.94
Poppe, Erich. 2023. Between the impressionistic and the arithmetic: Thinking about criteria for the stylistic analysis of Early Modern Welsh prose. Linguistica 63 (= Sociocultural Change and the Development of Vernacular Languages in Early Modern Europe, hrsg. v. Oliver Currie), 197–212. https://journals.uni-lj.si/linguistica/article/view/11104
Sackmann, Raphael. 2022. Subjects of verbal nouns in Early Modern Welsh: Evidence from Perl mewn Adfyd (1595). Journal of Historical Syntax 6 (11), 1–46. DOI: 10.18148/hs/2022.v6i4-11.97

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