Text Alignment in Ancient Greek and Georgian: A Case-Study on the First Homily of Gregory of Nazianzus

Abstract

This paper discusses the word level alignment of lemmatised bitext consisting of the Oratio I of Gregory of Nazianzus in its Greek model and Georgian translation. This study shows how the direct and empirical observations offered by an aligned text enable an accurate analysis of techniques of translation and many philological parameters of the text.

Keywords

• lexical tagging
• corpus
• bilingual dictionaries
• bitext
• ancient greek
• ancient georgian
• morphological tagging
• text alignment
• lemmatisation
• morphological tagging
• [shs.litt] humanities and social sciences/literature
• [shs.langue] humanities and social sciences/linguistics