Dataset origin: https://zenodo.org/records/4039059

This Database is an open source and downloadable version of the Oxford Database of the Inflectional Morphology of the Romance Verb, as a CLDF WordList module. It is intended to facilitate quantitative analysis.

This version was created in the following way:

We scraped the online database to reconstruct an image of the original database,
We then reorganized, cleaned up, and normalized the resulting tables into a CLDF WordList, adding metadata when needed.
We added latin entries from LatInfLexi 1.1

The scripts used for that purpose can be found in the scraping and formatting the ODRVM repository.

The original documentation can be found online at http://romverbmorph.clp.ox.ac.uk/.

Tables

languages.csv is a LanguageTable with information on each variety:

ID	Latitude	Longitude	Closest_Glottocode	Town	Variety	Linguistic_Date	Sources	Country	Family	Region	Variety_in_ODRVM
Sardinian_Sassarese	40.7267	8.55917	sass1235		Sassarese	late 20th to early 21st century	Camilli1929	Italy	Sardinian	Sardinia	Sardinian - Sassarese
French_Norman_from_Jersey	49.1833	-2.10694	norm1245	Jersey	Norman	mid to late 20th century	Liddicoat1994	Jersey	French	Channel Islands	French - Norman - Jersey
Italian_Northern_I_Piedmontese_Basso_from_Cascinagrossa	44.8786	8.72028	lowp1238	Cascinagrossa	Northern I > Piedmontese > Basso	late 20th to early 21st century	Castellani2002	Italy	Italian	Piedmont	Italian - Northern I - Piedmontese - Basso - Cascinagrossa

Full languages:

Catalan_Western_from_Lleida
Catalan_Eastern_Central_Barceloni_from_Barcelona
Catalan_Eastern_Algueres_from_LAlgher_Alghero
Catalan_Eastern_Balear_Mallorqui_from_Palma
Catalan_Eastern_Rossellones_from_Canet_de_Rossello_Canet-en-Roussillon
Friulian
French_Wallon_from_Namur
French_Poitevin-Saintongeais_Vendeen_from_Beauvoir-sur-Mer
French_Franc-Comtois_from_Pierrecourt
French_Norman_from_Jersey
French_Acadian_South-East_New_Brunswick_from_Moncton__environs
French_Norman_Guernsey
French_Acadian_from_Pubnico
French_Picard_from_Mesnil-Martinsart
French_Lorrain_from_Ranrupt
French_Modern_Standard
Swiss_Raeto-Romance_Surselvan
Swiss_Raeto-Romance_Surmiran_from_Bivio-Stalla
Spanish_Asturo-Leonese_Asturian_Sudeste_de_from_Parres
Spanish_Modern_Standard
Swiss_Raeto-Romance_Puter_Upper_Engadine
Spanish_Asturo-Leonese_Asturian_from_Somiedo
Spanish_Aragonese_from_Panticosa
Spanish_Aragonese_Ansotano_from_Anso_Fago
Sardinian_Sassarese
Sardinian_Nuorese
Sardinian_Logudorese
Sardinian_Gallurese
Sardinian_Campidanese
Romanian_Megleno-Romanian
Romanian_Modern_Standard
Romanian_Istro-Romanian_from_Susnjevica_Valdarsa
Romanian_Aromanian
Occitan_Southern_Languedocien_from_Graulhet
Occitan_Southern_Provencal_from_Nice
Occitan_Northern_Vivaro-Alpin_from_Seyne
Italian_Southern_I_Pugliese_Dauno_from_Lucera
Italian_Southern_II_Sicilian_Central_from_Mussomeli
Occitan_Northern_Limousin_from_Saint-Augustin
Occitan_Northern_Auvergnat_Gartempe_from_Gartempe_Creuse_
Ladin-_Dolomitic_Atesino_Val_Badia
Ladin-_Dolomitic_Atesino_Val_Gardena
Italian_Southern_I_Lucano_Central_from_Calvello
Italian_Southern_I_Molisano_from_Casacalenda
Italian_Southern_I_Lucano_Calabria_from_Papasidero
Italian_Southern_I_Lucano_Archaic_from_Nova_Siri
Italian_Northern_II_Veneto_Northern_from_Alpago
Italian_Northern_II_Veneto_Istrioto_Valle_dIstria_from_Valle_dIstria
Italian_Northern_I_Lombard_Cremonese_from_Cremona
Italian_Northern_I_Piedmontese_from_Cairo_Montenotte
Italian_Northern_I_Piedmontese_Basso_from_Cascinagrossa
Italian_Northern_I_Lombard_Alpine_from_Val_Calanca
Italian_Northern_I_Ligurian_Genoese_from_Genova
Italian_Northern_I_Emilian_from_Travo
Italian_Northern_I_Emilian_Romagnol_from_Lugo
Italian_Central_Tuscan_Corsican_from_Sisco
Italian_Central_Modern_Standard
Italian_Central_Marchigiano_from_Servigliano
Italian_Central_Marchigiano_from_Macerata
Galego-Portuguese_Portuguese
Italian_Central_Laziale_North-central_from_Ascrea
Galego-Portuguese_Galician_from_Xermade
Galego-Portuguese_Galician_from_Lubian
Galego-Portuguese_Galician_from_Fisterra_Finisterra
Galego-Portuguese_Galician_from_Dodro
Galego-Portuguese_Galician_from_Vilanova_de_Oscos
Galego-Portuguese_Galician_from_Cualedro
French_Acadian_from_Baie_Sainte-Marie
Friulian_Western_Maniago_from_Greci
Francoprovencal_Valaisan_Val_dIlliez_from_Val_dIlliez
Dalmatian_Vegliote_from_Veglia_Krk
Francoprovencal_Lyonnais_from_Vaux
Catalan_Western_from_Valencia
Italic_Latino-Faliscan_Latin
The table parameters.csv is a ParameterTable which describes the morphosyntactic cells of the paradigm. It was made manually following the online documentation, which is quoted in the "description" field. The IDs are used in the forms table. The 'Continuants' column links latin paradigm cells to their continuant labels.

ID	Name	Description	Continuants
PLUP-IND	Latin pluperfect indicative		CONT_LAT_PLUP-IND
IMPERF-SBJV	Latin imperfect subjunctive		CONT_LAT_IMPERF-SBJV
3PL	3pl	third person plural

The table cognatesets.csv is a CognateSetTable. It provides information for each unique etymon. The IDs are used in the form and lexeme tables. The LemLat_ID links back latin etymons to LatInFlexi identifiers.

ID	LemLat_ID	Language_of_the_etymon	Etymon
pascere	pasco/-or	Latin	pascere
III	V
akkattare		Romance	*akkattare
	V
cubare	cubo	Latin	cubare
I	V

The lexemes.csv table is a custom table which provides a meaning and a potential comment for each lexeme, that is each instance of an etymon in a given variety.

ID	Etymon_in_ODRVM	Meaning	Cognateset_ID	Language_ID
lex_1340	PLACERE	please	placere	French_Wallon_from_Namur
lex_2039	UENIRE	come	uenire	Italian_Northern_I_Emilian_from_Travo
lex_127	AMBULARE / IRE / UADERE	go	ambulare~~ire~~uadere	French_Acadian_South-East_New_Brunswick_from_Moncton__environs

form.csv is a FormTable representing a paradigm in long form, where each row corresponds to a specific form in one variety. The table refers to the languages, cognatesets and parameter tables through respectively the Language_ID, CognateSet_ID and Cell columns.

ID	Language_ID	Cell	Form	Cognateset_ID
form_723896	Romanian_Modern_Standard	PRS-SBJV~1PL	ˈnaʃtem	nasci
form_2203100	Galego-Portuguese_Portuguese	INFL_INF~3PL	pɾɐˈzeɾɐ̃ĩ	placere
form_2262553	Italian_Central_Marchigiano_from_Macerata	ROM_FUT~3PL	aˈvra	habere

Character Inventory

Forms are entered in IPA notation, using the following characters.

	bilabial	labio-dental	dental	alveolar	post-alveolar	retroflex	palatal	labio-palatal	labio-velar	velar	uvular	glottal
stop	b p			d t		ɖ	ɟ c			g k
nasal	m			n			ɲ			ŋ
trill				r							ʀ
tap				ɾ
fricative	β ɸ	v f	ð θ	z s	ʒ ʃ		ʝ ç			ɣ x	ʁ χ	h
affricate				ʣ ʦ	ʤ ʧ
approximant				ɹ			j	ɥ	w
lateral approximant				l			ʎ

	front	near-front	central	near-back	back
close	i y		ɨ		u
near-close		ɪ		ʊ
close-mid	e ø		ɘ		o
mid			ə
open-mid	ɛ œ				ʌ ɔ
near-open	æ		ɐ
open	a ɶ				ɑ ɒ

category	diacritic	value
syllable	◌ˈ	stressed
consonant	◌̩	syllabic
consonant	◌ʲ	palatalized
vowel	◌̝	raised
vowel	◌̯	non-syllabic
vowel	◌̃	nasalized
vowel	◌ː	long
vowel	◌̞	lowered

In addition:

parenthesis mark elements which are only optionally or variably present in pronunciation
brackets mark clitics when either we do not have an example of that form without the clitic and, or when it is possible that without the clitic the form of the verb would be slightly different.

People and contacts

The following have contributed to building the Database:

Silvio Cruschina
Maria Goldbach
Marc-Olivier Hinzelin
Martin Maiden
John Charles Smith

We are grateful also to Chiara Cappellaro, Louise Esher, Paul O'Neill, Stephen Parkinson, Mair Parry, Nicolae Saramandu, Andrew Swearingen, Francisco Dubert García and Tania Paciaroni for their assistance.

The CLDF version was created and cleaned by Sacha Beniamine and Erich Round.

Any queries or suggestions regarding the Database should be directed to: martin.maiden@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk and / or johncharles.smith@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk

Citation

Beniamine, S., Maiden, M., & Round, E. (2020). Romance Verbal Inflection Dataset 2.0.0 (2.0.4) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4039059