La imprescindible distinción entre texto y testimonioel CORDE y los criterios de fiabilidad lingüística
ISSN: 2014-640X
Year of publication: 2017
Issue: 6
Pages: 5-68
Type: Article
More publications in: Scriptum digital: revista de corpus diacrònics i edició digital en llengües iberoromàniques
Abstract
This paper addresses the strengths and weaknesses of the CORDE corpus with regard to the Old Spanish period (974-1492). Among its weaknesses, we focus mainly on dating inaccuracy and the unclear criteria underlying corpus compilation. Turning to the possibilities for further exploitation, we contribute a searchable tool allowing to filter CORDE’s data in terms of textual quality and philological accuracy: each Old Spanish text in the corpus is classified according to a list of parameters indicative of its general validity for historical linguistic research purposes, and a userfriendly three-colour code is then assigned to assess its reliability status.