Abstract
Edisyn (European Dialect Syntax) is an ESF-funded project on dialect syntax. It runs at the Meertens Institute in Amsterdam from September 2005 until September 2010. It aims at achieving two goals. One is to establish a European network of (dialect)syntacticians that use similar standards with respect to methodology of data collection, data storage and annotation, data retrieval and cartography. The second goal is to use this network to compile an extensive list of so-called doubling phenomena from European languages/dialects and to study them as a coherent object. One of the deliverables of the Edisyn project is a web-based search engine to search different linguistic corpora simultaneously and show the combined search results.
Highlights
Since these phenomena primarily occur in non-standard varieties, their existence has gone largely unnoticed in the linguistic literature
An explanation is sought for any such restrictions. These answers will contribute to the characterization of micro-variation but will in turn have implications on how we look both at meso-variation (e.g. OV word order versus VO order) and macro-variation
Until recently most dialectological work focused on variation within the non-standard varieties of one language, the availability of the Edisyn search engine, enables the investigation of dialects of various languages
Summary
To enhance cross-linguistic research on non-standard varieties a search engine - the so called Edisyn search engine- has been created enabling comparative research on dialect data of different languages. Until recently most dialectological work focused on variation within the non-standard varieties of one language, the availability of the Edisyn search engine, enables the investigation of dialects of various languages. At the moment of writing(March 2010) five databases containing data on non-standard varieties of a specific language have been combined within a single interface.
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