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Tag: Byzantine Greek
Lerna VIa: For Zeus’ Sake, How Many Words?
[Counts in this post have been corrected in Lerna VId] At long last, after nine posts of teasing, will I finally give the punters a count of lemmata of Greek? Why yes. Yes I will. And then for a change, I will also set to work inflating it, to extrapolate from the current corpus and […]
Lerna Va: Word Form Counts, pruning
[Counts in this post have been corrected in Lerna VIc] So surely, after all the disclaimers in previous posts, I will now tell you how many words there are in Greek? Oh no. Not at all. Not even close. Before I alight at the burning question of how many lemmata of Greek (and when), I’m […]
Lerna IV: Corpora
So having spent four posts on why we should not count words of Greek, I will count words of Greek. The counts are only meaningful relative to a corpus, so here I detail what’s in the corpus I’ll be using, PHI #7 + TLG—and how I will end up treating it as four concentric corpora. […]
Dictionary coverage of Greek
There’s three and a half millenia of Greek lexicon out there. Of course, that’s three and a half millennia if you accept that Mycenaean is the same language as is spoken on Greece’s Got Talent—which demands a bit of looseness in when you deem a language to have become a different language. (And the distinction […]