119 Old Norse-Icelandic Causative-Anticausative Example Pairs

119 pairs of linguistic examples from Old Norse-Icelandic, each pair containing a causative construction and its corresponding anticausative. Each example consists of three lines: the example, glossing, and translation. The dataset was compiled by Jóhanna Barðdal and colleagues across three research projects funded by the Norwegian Research Council, European Research Council, and Ghent University.

Use Cases

• Modeling productive and unproductive causative-anticausative alternations based on the paired example structure.
• Training or evaluating computational models for historical syntax based on the glossed and translated examples.
• Conducting comparative linguistic analysis of argument structure across languages based on the annotated corpus.
• Studying language change and productivity patterns in Old Norse-Icelandic based on the curated example pairs.

Strengths

• Contains 119 carefully curated and annotated example pairs.
• Data was gathered and validated across three distinct, funded research projects.
• Each example is structured with three lines (example, gloss, translation) following established linguistic tradition.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale computational tasks.
• The dataset's temporal and geographic scope within the Old Norse-Icelandic corpus is not explicitly defined.

Provenance

Source

Research by Jóhanna Barðdal and colleagues (Catrine Sandal, Sigríður Sæunn Sigurðardóttir).

Collection Method

Gathered during three research projects (NonCanCase, EVALISA, Language Productivity at Work).

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-21 02:26:57; freshness should be verified.

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