Professional paper
Digital Analysis of Place Names in De Raptu Cerberi
Alex Simrell
orcid.org/0000-0002-3830-8516
; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Abstract
Towards the end of the 15th century, Jakov Bunić published the oldest epic poem in Croatian literature, De Raptu Cerberi. Presenting Hercules as a figure of Christ, Bunić combines Catholic symbolism and ancient mythology. Part of the mythological ornatus are references to places, both real and imaginary. We wanted to study these references. To do so, we considered five aspects of each place reference: its »placeness« (the level of certainty that a word marks a place), lemma, morphology, and reference to the space and time of the external world. All of our annotations are connected in a digital framework, so it is possible to focus on the interesting cases. What are all the examples of a real place in an imaginary time? What morphological patterns exist in multiword expressions? What does the underworld consist of for Bunić? These are just a few of the possible research questions we can now begin to answer.
Keywords
Jakov Bunić; De Raptu Cerberi; digital analysis; placeness; lemma; morphology; space, time
Hrčak ID:
199402
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Publication date:
22.4.2018.
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