ForFun 1.0: Prague Database of Forms and Functions -- An Invaluable Resource for Linguistic Research
Abstract
NOT FINAL VERSION. In this paper, we introduce first version of ForFun, Prague Database of Syntactic Forms and Functions, as an invaluable resource for profound linguistic research, particularly in describing syntactic functions and their formal realizations.
ForFun takes advantage of sev- eral richly syntactically annotated corpora, collectively called Prague Dependency Treebanks. The ForFun brings this rich and complex annotation of Czech sentences closer to common researchers.
We demonstrate that the ForFun 1.0 provides valuable and rich material allowing to elaborate various syntactic issues in depth. We believe that nowadays when corpus linguistics differs from traditional linguis- tics in its insistence on a systematic study of authentic examples of language in use, our database will contribute to the comprehensive syntactic description.