ForFun 1.0: Prague Database of Forms and Functions - An Invaluable Resource for Linguistic Research

Marie Mikulová, Eduard Bejcek

Abstract: In this paper, we introduce the first version of ForFun, Prague Database of Forms and Functions, as an invaluable resource for profound linguistic research, particularly in describing syntactic functions and their formal realizations. ForFun is built with the use of already existing richly syntactically annotated corpora, collectively called Prague Dependency Treebanks. ForFun brings this complex annotation of Czech sentences closer to researchers. We demonstrate that ForFun 1.0 provides valuable and rich material allowing to elaborate various syntactic issues in depth. We believe that nowadays when corpus linguistics differs from traditional linguistics in its insistence on a systematic study of authentic examples of language in use, our database will contribute to the comprehensive syntactic description.