SlaDCo – Slavic Diachronic Corpora
We have been actively involved in building diachronic corpora of Slavic languages for research mainly in the area of syntactic change. These corpora are annotated using automatic and manual methods and published for online query via the Annis search engine. Currently, you can query
- DiaUk: Corpus for the History of Ukrainian 16th-18th c.
- PolDi: Polish Diachronic Research Corpus (coming up)
- RRuDi: Russian Diachronic Research Corpus (coming up)
- CroCorDi: Croatian Historical Corpus (coming up)
If you use these resources in research, please cite
Meyer, R., Razguliaeva, M., Funk, E., Parkhomenko, I., Yazhinova, U. & A. Tikhonov (2016-2023). SlaDCo: Slavic diachronic research corpora RRuDi (Russian), PolDi (Polish) and DiaUk (Ukrainian). Electronic resource, https://hu.berlin/sladco.
and the references indicated on the respective corpus website.
Work on these corpora is/has been supported by the following research grants:
- Stiftung Humboldt-Universität 2025-2026: Digital interdisciplinary historical corpus of Ukrainian (DiaUk) (R. Meyer and L. Szucsich)
- DFG & AHRC 2021-2025: The history of pronominal subjects in the languages of northern Europe (ME
4125/4-1, R. Meyer and D. Willis)
- DFG 2013-2017: Corpus Linguistics and Diachronic Syntax II: Subject Case and Finiteness (ME4125/1-2, R. Meyer, B. Hansen and E. Hansack)