Romankorpus Frühneuhochdeutsch (Roko.UP): A Collection of Early Modern German Narrative Prose

Abstract

This article presents the Romankorpus Frühneuhochdeutsch (Roko.UP), which has been collected as part of the DFG project ‘Worstellung und Diskursstruktur in der Frühen Neuzeit’. The Roko.UP contains the clause-separated .txt-files of nine texts in the genre narrative prose that have been written in Germany between 1450 and 1550. Most of the selected texts are prose-renderings of texts originating from a diverse spectrum of narrative traditions, including Middle High German poetry and French prose. The corpus can be accessed as clause-separated .txt-files via https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10462759 and may prove useful for research into historical narratology and historical linguistics.

Keywords

• early new high german
• narrative prose
• text corpus
• historical linguistics
• historical narratology