Short Description of Functionality

This page enables you to search the database created in the context of the project DiFuPaRo (“Distribution and Function of ‘Partitive Articles’ in Romance”) for different syntactic, morphologic and sociolinguistic properties of indefinite noun phrases showing a partitive article (or, to some minor extent, an indefinite definite article) stemming from different Romance languages/varieties. More precisely, the database consists of material from the ALAVAL, a Francoprovençal corpus, the ASIt, a corpus of Italian dialects, and the OFROM, a corpus of spoken (Swiss) French. These data are continuously extended by data from own fieldwork conducted for Francoprovençal and Northern Italian varieties. The DiFuPaRo database is organized along the three different entities "Linguistic properties related to the Nominal Group", "Sociolinguistic information" and "Information on data" (data collection, translations), each of them formed by three different types of attributes: (i) attributes with values that can be selected from a list, (ii) attributes with values consisting of text which can be searched for by typing in (parts of) words and (iii) attributes with numeric values, which again have to be typed in manually to be searched for.

It is possible to select multiple values of one attribute and/or of different (types of) attributes simultaneously and to display your selection at any time in the rubric “View selected values”. In case there are attributes whose value(s) you don’t want any longer in your list of selected values, you can delete them here. Furthermore, you have the possibility to choose between the two logic connectors AND and OR when selecting values from different attributes (note that the default connector is AND). Finally, the result of your query is displayed in the rubric “View selected sentences”, where you see the sentences the relevant noun phrases are found in, their translation in English or French, the variety of the respective speaker as well as a link to the original corpus if existing. Before exporting the result of your query, you can select the values of further attributes which you want to be displayed in your final Excel list by clicking on “Select additional columns of TSV”.