Multilingual Event Descriptions Across Expository and Narrative Genres

David Peeters introduces a twelve-language dataset from a standardized online text elicitation study. It contains 2,400 short texts written by 1,200 participants describing two events across two discourse genres. The dataset was last updated on 2026-06-01.

Use Cases

• Compare event descriptions across languages based on the twelve-language parallel structure
• Analyze stylistic differences between expository and narrative genres based on the described discourse genres
• Study individual variation in writing style based on the 100 participants per language
• Investigate referent description patterns across languages and genres based on the described events and referents

Strengths

• Standardized collection method via an online text elicitation study
• Includes 2,400 texts from 1,200 unique participants
• Covers twelve distinct languages, including Dutch, English, German, Hindi, Japanese, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Mandarin, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

DataverseNL Harvested Dataverse

Collection Method

Standardized online text elicitation study

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-01 06:11:07; freshness should be verified