TEITOK visualization and search interface for Nisvai

Language name	Nisvai	nisv1234
Language family	Austronesian	aust1307
Corpus creator	Aznar, Jocelyn
Translations provided	French
Glosses	all
Annotation file licence	CC BY-NC-ND

This is an interface for visualizing and searching the Nisvai DoReCo dataset. For more information about this dataset, including metadata, consult the DoReCo dataset page, where you can also download the data. Use the links in the left-side menu to search through this dataset, or to access individual documents for visualization.

When using actual data from the Nisvai DoReCo dataset in publications please cite

Aznar, Jocelyn. 2024. Nisvai DoReCo dataset. In Seifart, Frank, Ludger Paschen and Matthew Stave (eds.). Language Documentation Reference Corpus (DoReCo) 2.0. Lyon: Laboratoire Dynamique Du Langage (UMR5596, CNRS & Université Lyon 2). https://doreco.huma-num.fr/languages/nisv1234 (Accessed on 23/01/2026). DOI:10.34847/nkl.6eaf5laq

When using results obtained from DoReCo's TEITOK version in publications, such as frequency counts obtained through the TEITOK search function, please cite — in addition to the reference to the Bora DoReCo dataset:

Janssen, Maarten & Frank Seifart. 2025. Searchable Language Documentation Corpora: DoReCo meets TEITOK. In: Éric Le Ferrand, Elena Klyachko, Anna Postnikova, Tatiana Shavrina, Oleg Serikov, Ekaterina Voloshina & Ekaterina Vylomova (eds.), Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on NLP Applications to Field Linguistics, 58–64. Vienna, Austria: Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2025.fieldmatters-1.5/.

Gloss Abbreviations

Below is the list of language-specific glosses used in the Nisvai corpus:

Gloss	LGR	Meaning
ANIMAL	none	name of an animal
ARBRE	none	name of a tree
ART.C	none	article for common nouns
ART.P	none	article for proper nouns
ASP	none	aspect
ASP.A	none	atelic
ASP.C	none	durative
ASP.D	none	inchoative
ASP.EC	none	progressive
ASP.F	none	completive
ASP.I	none	not yet happened
ASP.J	none	time focus
ASP.R	none	"protractive (In Vanuatu's descriptive literature
ASP.T	none	telic
ASP.V	none	progressive
AUTRE	none	event outside of the text's performance
COO	none	coordination
COO.ASP.EC	none	verbal coordination with aspect marked
COO.CAUS	none	causative coordination
COO.CSQ	none	consequence coordination
COO.NARR	none	narrative coordination
COO.NM	none	nominal coordination
COO.OP	none	oppositional coordination
COO.TMP	none	temporal coordination
COO.VB	none	verbal coordination
COP	COP	copula
CORR	none	correction
DEF	DEF	definite
DEI	none	deictic
DEI.E	none	pronoun peictic away from the speaker
DEI.LOC	none	locative deictic
DEI.LOC.E	none	locative deictic
DEI.LOC.P	none	pronoun deictic locative referring to something close to the speaker
DEI.LOC.PI	none	pronoun deictic locative close to the interlocutor
DEI.LOC.PRO	none	locative deictic
DEI.LOC.R	none	pronoun deictic locative referenced
DEI.P	none	pronoun deictic close to the speaker
DEI.PI	none	pronoun deictic close to the interlocutor
DEI.PL	none	deictic referring to something closed to the speaker
DEI.R	none	pronoun deictic referenced
DESI	none	designative
DET	DET	determiner
DIR	none	directive
DU	DU	dual
EXCL	EXCL	exclusive
FUT	FUT	future
FUT.C	none	future
FUT.POST	none	Futur post-posé
HESI	none	hesitation
INCL	INCL	inclusive
INDEF	none	indefinite
INSECT	none	taxon referring to an insect
INSECTE	none	name of an insect
INST	none	instrumental
INT	none	intentificative
INTER	none	interjection
INTER.ACQ	none	agreement interjection
INTER.AP	none	appelative interjection
INTER.EXC	none	exclamative interjection
INTER.F	none	final interjection
INTER.NEG	none	negative interjection
INTER.OP	none	opposing interjection
INTER.SP	none	surprise interjection
INTR	INTR	intransitive
IRR	IRR	irrealis
LIEU	none	place name
LOC.DEI.E	none	pronoun deictic locative referring to something away from the speaker
LOC.DEI.I	none	pronoun deictic locative referring to something close to the speaker
LOC.DEI.P	none	pronoun deictic locative referring to something close to the speaker
LOC.DEI.R	none	pronoun deictic locative referring to something already discussed by the speaker
MUL	none	multiplicative
MUS	none	musical
NARR	none	imperfective
NEG	none	negative
NEG.INT	none	negative intensifier
NOM	none	person name
NOMI	none	nominative
OBJ	none	object
OISEAU	none	bird name
OP	none	other party
PA	none	alienable possessive
PA.AFFEC	none	alienable affective possessive
PAN	none	alienable possessive for food
PI	none	inalienable possessive
PI.IND	none	indeterminate possessive
PL	none	plural
PL.DEI.R	none	personal pronoun plural deictic refering to
PN	none	alienable possessive for food
POISSON	none	fish name
POS	POSS	possessive
PR.INDEF	none	indefinite pronoun
PR.OP	none	pronoun reference other party
PRE	none	preposition
PRE.LOC	none	locative preposition
PRE.LOC.DOM	none	home locative preposition
PRE.LOC.P	none	close locative preposition
PRE.TMP	none	temporal preposition
PREP	none	preposition
PREP.CAUSE	none	causative preposition
PRO	none	pronoun
PRO.DEI.E	none	pronoun deictic away
PRO.DEI.P	none	pronoun deictic close
PRO.DEI.R	none	pronoun deictic referenced
RECI	none	designative for verbs
RED	none	reduplication
REL	none	relative
SG	SG	singular
TAXON	none	taxonomic name