Network by country

Revision as of 11:03, 3 January 2012

This page gives an overview of the countries in which dialect research is undertaken.

Belgium

Katholieke Universiteit Brussel, Department of Linguistics and Literature: Guido Vanden Wyngaerd was a coordinator in the SAND project between 2000 and 2001. Jeroen Van Craenenbroeck wrote his PhD within the SAND project.

University of Antwerp, CGCT (Center for Grammar, Cognition and Typology): This group concerns itself, among other things, with typological research into the variation between languages and dialects. Coordinator Johan van der Auwera was involved in the SAND project as one of the supervisors.

University of Gent, Department of Dutch Linguistics: Research is carried out into Dutch (and Frisian) dialects. Magda Devos was involved in the SAND project as one of the supervisors. Gunther De Vogelaer wrote his PhD within the SAND project. Lobke Aelbrecht wrote her PhD thesis (2009) on ellipsis in Dutch dialects. Liliane Haegeman carries out research into Flemish dialects.

Mark Janse (University of Gent, Faculty of Humanities and Philosophy) has been investigating Cappadocian Greek (in collaboration with Dimitris Papazachariou, University of Patras, Department of Philology).

Cyprus

University of Cyprus: Yoryia Agouraki (Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies) has conducted research on aspects of Cypriot Greek syntax. Phoevos Panagiotidis (Department of English Studies) has also carried out research on Cypriot Greek, in collaboration with Kleanthes Grohmann (also from the Department of English Studies) and Stavroula Tsiplakou (Department of Education).

Canada

University of Western Ontario (Department of French Studies): Ileana Paul has received a grant to study variation in Malagasy dialects on Madagascar. This project will run from 2011 to 2014.

Denmark

University of Århus, Institute of Language, Literature & Culture: Tavs Bjerre, Henrik Jørgensen, Ken Ramshøj Christensen, Inger Schoonderbeek Hansen, Kathrine Beck Risom. Sten Vikner coordinates the research into Danish dialects, collaborating with the University of Copenhagen, under the umbrella project ScanDiaSyn.

University of Copenhagen, Nordisk Forskninginstitut: Inge Lise Pedersen, Torben Juel Jensen. Karen Margrethe Pedersen and her group have initiated the study of Danish dialects as part of the ScanDiaSyn-project.

Tanya Christensen, Eva Skafte Jensen at Roskilde University Center.

Estonia

The Corpus of Estonian Dialects is a joint project of the University of Tartu and the Institute of Estonian Language. To access the corpus contact Liina Lindstrom.

Finland

The project "FinDiaSyn: Regional aspects of Finnish Syntax" running 2008-2011 is hosted by the Research Institute for the Languages of Finland (Kotus), and funded by the Academy of Finland. The FinDiaSyn NordForsk network group has the following members:
• Maria Vilkuna, project leader (Research Institute for the Languages of Finland)
• Urpo Nikanne (Åbo Akademi University)
• Hannele Forsberg (University of Joensuu)
• Jaakko Leino (Åbo Akademi University and University of Helsinki)
• Mari Siiroiinen (University of Helsinki)
• Heli Pekkarinen, PhD student (University of Helsinki)
• Markus Hamunen, research assistant (University of Helsinki)
• Miia Karttunen, research assistant (University of Joensuu)

In addition, Jan-Ola Östman (University of Helsinki, Department of Scandinavian language and literature) has been investigating the Finland Swedish dialect of Solv.

France

Mélanie Jouitteau (CNRS, LLF, UMR 7110) is responsible for the project ARBRES, a dialect syntax project for Breton.

University of Bayonne, IKER: The Basque Text and Language Study Center investigates Basque dialects under the auspices of BasDiSyn, a co-operative dialect syntax enterprise involving in addition the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and the University of Deusto. (Additionally, the computational aspects of the project are handled by the IXA team from the UPV/EHU and the Ametzagaiña group.)
BasDiSyn comprises two recently funded research projects: "Syntactic micro-variation in Basque: a theoretical and typological approach", based in Madrid and co-ordinated by Beatriz Fernández, and "Towards a syntactic atlas of the Basque language", which is running in Paris, co-ordinated by Ricardo Etxepare.

University of Nice, BCL (Base, Corpus et Langage): This research group, headed by Tobias Scheer, studies French dialects and Occitan. It has developed a huge corpus with a lexical/phonological focus. Michèle Olivieri has started working on dialect syntax.

University of Toulouse, Syntax and Semantics Research Unit (ERSS): Patrick Sauzet studies Occitan dialects, collaborating with Michèle Olivieri and Pierre-Aurélien Georges at BCL in Nice.

Germany

University of Freiburg, English Department: Bernd Kortmann supervised the compilation of a database of English dialects (Freiburg English Dialect Corpus: FRED). He was also involved in the construction of a dialect atlas consisting of two volumes.

University of Konstanz, Department of Linguistics: Ellen Brandner and Josef Bayer have been carrying out research in German dialects, specifically Alemannic (and Bavarian German), under the auspices of their project "Microvariation and Dialect Syntax". In 2011 Ellen Brandner started a new project on syntactic variation in Alemannic. The project will run untill 2013.

Helmut Weiss (University of Frankfurt, Institute of German language sciences and literature II), Jurg Fleischer (University of Marburg) and Alexandra Lenz (University of Groningen) have been developing a project proposal for the study of the syntax of Hessian dialects. Alexandera Lenz is supervising the research of Tim Kallenborn, who is investigating the syntax of varieties of Moselle-Franconia.

Great Britain

David Willis (University of Cambridge), Maggie Tallerman (University of Newcastle) and Bob Borsley (University of Essex) have recently launched the Syntactic Atlas of Welsh Dialects.

Ioanna Sitaridou (University of Cambridge) is investigating Pontic Greek. She has recently undertaken fieldwork in Turkey on "Muslim Pontic" (this name is used for convenience only). In March 2010 she organized a workshop in Cambridge on Hellenic dialects of Pontus.

University of Cambridge, Department of Linguistics: Theresa Biberauer studies variation within Germanic languages with a focus on Afrikaans. Faye Chalcraft is writing a dissertation on syntactic properties of Bradford English.

University of Newcastle, The School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics: Karen Corrigan studies English dialects of the British Isles (Great Britain and Ireland) from a sociolinguistic perspective. Isabelle Buchstaller works on English dialects in North America and Britain. Anders Holmberg investigates micro-variation in Scandinavian languages. The Newcastle Group is currently preparing for a Syntactic Atlas project in the near future.

Queen Mary, University of London: David Adger studies Scottish dialects and Gaelic.

Greece

University of Patras, Department of Philology: Angela Ralli and her group carry out research into Greek dialects, more specifically: dialects of Asia Minor, the Grico dialect (southern Italy), the dialects of Ionian islands. and the dialect of Eastern Lesbos.

Research center for Modern Greek dialects - historical dictionary at the Academy of Athens.

Manolis Triandafyllidis Foundation at the University of Thessaloniki: Symeon Tsolakidis wrote his PhD on Ancient Greek dialects. He is collaborating with Angela Ralli.

Iceland

University of Iceland, Department of Icelandic: Höskuldur Thráinsson and Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson are responsible for the study of Icelandic microvariation within the umbrella project ScanDiaSyn.

Italy

University of Florence, Department of Linguistics: Rita Manzini and her colleagues carry out research on Italian Dialects.

University of Padova, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy: Paola Benincà

University of Venice, Department of Language Sciences: Cecilia Poletto is a specialist in syntactic variation of Italian dialects, and at her previous position (University of Padova) she and her group constructed a huge corpus consisting of syntactic data from northern Italian dialects, the ASIt project.

University of Verona: Birgit Alber investigates the syntax of the Cimbrian dialect.

Macedonia

University of Skopje: Olga Tomic, also affiliated at University of Novi Sad in Serbia, carries out research into Slavic Balkan dialects.

Netherlands

Fryske Akademy: The department of linguistics carries out research into Frisian dialects. It was also involved in the SAND project. The development of a database of spoken Frisian is currently undertaken.

Leiden University: Johan Rooryck was involved as supervisor in the SAND project. Roberta D'Alessandro (Department of Italian) is holder of a NWO-project on Italian dialects. Tanja Temmerman (Leiden University Centre for Linguistics) is a PhD student investigating variation in the left periphery of Dutch (dialects).

Meertens Institute: The linguistics department focuses on the study of Dutch dialects, and was a key partner in the SAND project. Sjef Barbiers is the project leader of MIMORE, an online search engine that combines three Dutch dialect corpora. He is also the initiator of the Edisyn-project. Edisyn involves Franca Wesseling as a research assistant, Eefje Boef (PhD student) and Marika Lekakou (postdoc) who investigate Dutch dialects. Gertjan Postma is involved in dialect syntax research as well.

University of Amsterdam (ACLC): Fred Weerman and Hans Bennis, director of the Meertens Institute, are currently stimulating research into Dutch dialect syntax (cf. the Variflex project). Hedde Zeijlstra wrote his PhD within the SAND project. Olaf Koeneman is carrying out research on Dutch dialects.

University of Utrecht (UiL-OTS): This institute has a research group dedicated to the study of microvariation within Dutch, the DiDDD project, involving Norbert Corver (project leader), Marjo van Koppen (postdoc), and Huib Kranendonk. Marjo van Koppen wrote her PhD within the SAND project. Among the PhD students at UiL-OTS, Andreas Pankau investigates syntactic properties of German dialects, and Bettina Gruber has studied Austrian German dialects. Marko Hladnik collected dialect data on Slovene dialects which has been made available via the Edisyn search engine.

Norway

University of Oslo, Tekstlab: This unit, led by Janne Bondi Johannessen, is responsible for the database technology of ScanDiaSyn.

University of Tromsø, CASTL: From this insitute, the ScanDiaSyn and the NorMS project are supervised and directed by Øystein Vangsnes and Peter Svenonius respectively.

Portugal

University of Lisbon, Centro Linguística: Research into Portuguese dialects has been conducted within this department, which has developed a syntax-oriented dialectal corpus (CORDIAL-SIN). Ana Maria Martins and Ernestina Carrilho are key members in this project. They are currently involved in a new project, DUPLEX, which develops a syntactic annotation system for the CORDIAL-SIN corpus.

South Africa

Rhodes University, Department of English Language and Linguistics, Grahamstown: Mark de Vos started the SANPAD project, investigating variation in Afrikaans. The project is carried out in collaboration with (Johan Oosthuizen, Christine Anthonissen) Stellenbosch University and Northwest University (Prof. Du Plessis).

Spain

Universidad Autonoma de Madrid: Ines Fernandez-Ordonez works on Spanish dialects within the COSER project.

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Departament de Filologia Catalana: Gemma Rigau investigates the syntax of Catalan dialects.

University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), HiTT (Basque Research Group of Theoretical Linguistics): this research group studies Basque dialect syntax. Beatriz Fernández is involved in the collaborative dialect syntax enterprise BasDiSyn. The research team includes among others Pablo Albizu, Arantazu Elordieta, a research team in University of Deusto, as well as Ricardo Etxepare and colleagues in University of Bayonne, IKER. (Additionally, the computational aspects of the project are handled by the IXA team from the UPV/EHU and the Ametzagaiña group.) BasDiSyn comprises two recently funded research projects: "Syntactic micro-variation in Basque: a theoretical and typological approach", based in Madrid and co-ordinated by Beatriz Fernández, and "Towards a syntactic atlas of the Basque language", running in Paris and co-ordinated by Ricardo Etxepare.

Sweden

University of Lund, Instutionen för Nordiska Språk: Lars-Olof Delsing and his group have initiated the study of Swedish dialects as part of the ScanDiaSyn-project.

Switzerland

University of Geneva, Faculty of Arts: Ur Shlonsky carries out syntactic research into Romance dialects, such as Franco-Provençal.

University of Neuchâtel, Centre de Dialectologie: Andres Kristol, director of the Centre de dialectologie et d'étude de français régional, investigates Gallo-Romane dialects, such as Franco-Provençal and Occitan.

University of Zürich, Germanische Philologie, Abteilung für Linguistik: Elvira Glaser was involved in the development of a syntactic atlas of Swiss German Dialects (SADS), the data of which are stored in a digital corpus. Michele Loporcaro does research into Italian dialects.

Martin Salzmann (currently at University of Leipzig) wrote a PhD dissertation on syntactic aspects of Swiss German, and is also involved in micro-syntactic research.

United States of America

Several people from different universities cooperate in the project project/index.html The comparative morpho-syntax of Appalachian English: Judy Bernstein (William Paterson University), Marcel den Dikken (City University of New York: The Graduate Center), Christina Tortora (City University of New York: College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center) and Raffaella Zanuttini (Yale University).

Lisa Green at the University of Texas at Austin has been carrying out research on African American English.

Annemarie Toebosch has been investigating Plautdietsch (a language of Netherlandic Mennonites in the Americas).

Ananda Lima at University of California, Los Angeles Linguistics Department is carrying out micro-syntactic research on variation in Brazilian Portuguese determiner phrases as part of her work on her PhD dissertation.