The Tagging

 

In the time of our project it is not possible to make a completely new tagging for the text of Acts and its variants. So, we decided to use the already existing tagging for the base text from The CrossWire Bible Society, which uses the Strong’s numbers for the lemmata and the morphology codes from Maurice Robinson, made some additions where necessary, and are now tagging the text of the variants.

 

The morphology codes are divided into codes for

To all of these codes a few suffixes can be added.

 

Additional Explanations

 

For every word one morphology is decided. We adopted this from the tagging of Maurice Robinson/ CrossWire.

While tagging we saw that only in some cases it would have been interesting to put in more than one possibility. That is the case, where indicative and subjunctive look the same and both could be possible in the specific case. But to stay in the chosen system and to be able to compare readings we always made the decision for one morphology.

 

Up to now the tagging was done on the level of readings, not yet on the level of singular manuscripts, that means that, for example, the suffix -F could only be used if the fault is in a singular reading which is marked with an ‘f’, e. g. bf, cf etc. For the faults which are included in other readings and only marked with the ‘f’ beside the number of the manuscript an individual tagging was not possible at this stage.

 

In some cases the tagging is actually not accurate enough for our purposes. In the time of our project we could not revise everything, but some inaccuracies we saw shall be noted here:

  • For the conjunction ει „COND“ is put as a code everywhere. But ει is not a conditional conjunction everywhere, but can also be the conjunction for indirect questions.

  • εως, εξω and similar cases are not differentiated into preposition, adverb and conjunction.

  • Conjunctions which introduce a subordinate clause are not always tagged as such but either as conjunctions, adverbs or particles.

  • ιστημι and ισταμαι (and the like) are under the same lemma number.
  • τε is tagged as PRT, but should better be tagged as CONJ.