The Corpus of Early Written Latvian: Current State and Future Tasks

Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia, e-mail: everita@ailab.mii.lu.lv. — 13 pages.Статья о современном состоянии и будущих задачах по составлению корпуса раннего письменного латышского языка. На английском языке. Год публикации не указан.The Corpus of Early Written Latvian named SENIE (www.ailab.lv/SENIE) is an effort to change the existing statements and to support a completely new view on the language as a system in these texts. The Corpus was first launched in January 2003, but its development is still in progress (the approximate size of the corpus is now about one million running words). The aim of the Corpus is to facilitate diachronic studies of Latvian, to support variant and language standardization studies, to serve a basis for a historical dictionary of Latvian, as well as to popularise early written sources and to support their re-evaluation.