oldFrenchMeta: Meta data for the oldFrench data
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Meta data for the oldFrench data, a matrix of frequencies for texts (rows) by tag trigrams (columns). The meta data provide information on the texts, manuscript variants, their authors, their region and approximate date of origin, their general topic, and their genre.

1	data(oldFrenchMeta)

A data frame with 342 observations on the following 7 variables.

Textlabels

a factor with texts coded as follows:

Abe: J. de Meun, Traduction de la premiere epitre de P. Abelard, 1–821
Hyl1: Anon, La vie de saint Hylaire
Art: J. de Meun, L'art de chevalerie
Bar: Anon, L'histoire de Barlaam et Josaphat
Cathy: Anon, La vie de sainte Catherine d'Alexandrie
Hyl2: Anon, La vie de saint Hylaire
Ch1: Chretien de Troyes, Le Chevalier au lion
Ch2: Chretien de Troyes, Le chevalier au lion
Clari: Robert de Clari, La conquete de Constantinople
Marie: Rutebeuf, Sainte Marie l'Egyptienne
Fab4c: Anon, Fabliau nr 4 ms C
Fab4e: Anon, Fabliau nr 4 ms E
Fab4f: Anon, Fabliau 4f
Faba: Anon, Fabliaux nrs 1,2,4,23 et 29 du ms A
Fabb: Anon, Fabliaux nrs 2 et 4 du ms B
Fabd.COD: Anon, Fabliaux nrs 2 et 4 du ms D
Hyl3: Anon, La vie de saint Hylaire
Jacobi: Pierre de Beauvais, The Liber Sancti Jacobi
Louis: J. de Joinville, La vie de saint Louis
Cathy1: Anon, La passion saynte Katherine
Lancelot: Anon, Lancelot do Lac, p. 1.1–20.13
Merlin1: Merlin, Robert de Boron
Marga: Anon, La vie de Sainte Marguerite de Wace
Martin: Anon, Leben und Wunderthaten des heiligen Martin
Merlin2: Anon, Merlin, p.1–29 (ms. Huth)
RoseA: J. de Meun, Le Roman de la Rose
Arthur: Anon, La mort le roi Artu, par.1–35
NimAf: Anon, charroi de Nimes, ms. A, fragment
NimB1: Anon, Le charroi de Nimes, ms B1
NimB2: Anon, Le charroi de Nimes, ms B2
Nouvel: Jacquemart Gielee, Renart le Nouvel
Jehan: Anon, La vie de saint Jehan Bouche d'Or
Per0: Chretien de Troyes, Perceval
perL: Chretien de Troyes, Perceval
PerQ: Chretien de Troyes, Perceval
PerS: Chretien de Troyes, Perceval
PerU: Chretien de Troyes, Perceval
Queste: Anon, La queste del saint Graal, p.1.1–41.17
Rob: Anon, Robert le Diable, v.1–808
RomB: Anon, Le Roman de Renart, br.VI, ms B
RomD: Anon, Roman de Renard, br.VI, ms D
RomL: Anon, Roman de Renard, br. VI, ms L
RomO: Anon, Le Roman de Renart, br. VI, ms 0
RoseB: Guillaume de Lorris, Le roman de la rose
Sapi: Anon, Sermo de sapientia, dans: Li dialoge Gregoire lo pape
Troi: Anon, Le roman de Troie en prose, par.1–19
Conqueste: Josfroi de Vileharduyn, La conqueste de Costentinoble
YvA: Chretien de Troyes, Le chevalier au lion, v.1–1000
YvP: Chretien de Troyes, Le chevalier au lion, v.1–1000
YvS: Chretien de Troyes, Le chevalier au lion, v.1–1000
YvV: Chretien de Troyes, Le chevalier au lion, v 1–1000

Codes

a factor with manuscript variants, indicated by extensions to the text codes.

Author

a factor with levels Anon, ChretienDeTroyes, GuillaumeDeLorris, Joinville, Meun, NouvelRenart, PierreDeBeauvais, RobertDeBoron, RobertDeClari, RobertLeDiable, Rutebeuf, and Villeharduyn.

Topic

a factor with levels Knight, Other, and Saint.

Genre

a factor with levels poetry and prose.

Region

a factor with levels R1 (Picardie), R2 (Champenois), and R3 (Nievre-Allier).

Year

a numeric vector indicating approximate year of origin.

Data from Nouveau Corpus d'Amsterdam, http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/lingrom/stein/corpus/.

Ernestus, M., van Mulken, M. and Baayen, R. H. (2007) De syntax van Oud-Franse ridders en heiligen in ruimte en tijd To appear in Onze Taal.

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data(oldFrench)
data(oldFrenchMeta)

oldFrench.ca = corres.fnc(oldFrench)

plot(oldFrench.ca, rlabels = oldFrenchMeta$Genre, 
rcol = as.numeric(oldFrenchMeta$Genre), rcex = 0.5, 
extreme = 0.1, ccol = "blue")

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