Two Languages - One Annotation Scenario? Experience from the Prague Dependency Treebank

is paper compares the two FGD-based annotation scenarios for Czech and for English, with the Czech as the basis. We discuss the secondary predication expressed by infinitive and its functions in Czech and English, respectively. We give a few examples of English constructions that do not have direct counterparts in Czech (e.g., tough movement and causative constructions with make, get, and have), as well as some phenomena central in English but much less employed in Czech (object raising or control in adjectives as nominal predicates), and, last, structures more or less parallel both in their function and distribution, whose respective annotation differs due to significant differences in the respective linguistic traditions (verbs of perception). 1. Introductory Remarks 1.1. e current tasks of corpus linguistics e expansion of the use of computers for linguistic studies based on very large empirical language material led to the appearance of an allegedly new domain, corpus linguistics. One can then ask what the position of corpus linguistics is with regard to computational linguistics. And also what its relation to “real” linguistics is. It is no doubt that the intersection of the two former domains is very large and also that there is no reason to distinguish between corpus and “real” linguistics. ere is no descriptive framework universally accepted since there is a diversity of many different trends in linguistics. A discussion on theoretical characterization of linguistic phenomena and the computerized checking of the adequacy of descriptive frameworks belong to fundamental goals in linguistics, and a highly effective collaboration of researchers in all the relevant fields is needed. is implies also the necessity of a systematic, intrinsic collaboration (if not a symbiosis) of corpus oriented and computational linguistics with linguistic theory. © 2008 PBML. All rights reserved. Please cite this article as: Silvie Cinková, Eva Hajičová, Jarmila Panevová, Petr Sgall, Two Languages – One Annotation Scenario? Experience from the Prague Dependency Treebank. The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics No. 89, 2008, 5–22.