“…One may wonder how the annotation projection approach performs in comparison to direct applications of modern language NLP tools to normalized historical data language (Scheible et al, 2011). While it is unlikely that such an approach could scale beyond closely related varieties, successful experiments on the annotation of normalized historical language have been reported, although mostly focused on token-level annotations (POS, lemma, morphology) of language stages which syntax does not greatly deviate from modern rules (Rayson et al, 2007;Pennacchiotti and Zanzotto, 2008;Kestemont et al, 2010;Bollmann, 2013). For the annotation of more remotely related varieties with more drastic differences in word order rigidity or morphology as considered here, however, projection techniques are more promising as they have been successfully applied to unrelated languages, as well, but still benefit from diachronic proximity, cf.…”