Germanic

Revision as of 13:54, 4 January 2012

• Afrikaans dialects are investigated by:

- Mark de Vos at Rhodes University.

- Theresa Biberauer at University of Cambridge.

- Johan Oosthuizen and Christine Anthonissen at Stellenbosch University.

• Danish dialects are investigated by:

- Sten Vikner Tavs Bjerre, Henrik Jørgensen, Ken Ramshøj Christensen Inger Schoonderbeek Hansen, Kathrine Beck Risom at University of Århus.

- Tanya Christensen, Eva Skafte Jensen at Roskilde University Center.

- Karen Margrethe Pedersen, Inge Lise Pedersen, Torben Juel Jensen at University of Copenhagen.

• Dutch dialects are investigated by:

- Sjef Barbiers within the SAND (Syntactic Atlas of the Dutch dialects) project and the MIMORE (Microcomparative Morphosyntax Research) project.

- Hans Bennis and Fred Weerman within the Variflex (Variation in Inflection) project.

- Norbert Corver and Marjo van Koppen within the Diddd (Diversity in Dutch DP Design) project.

- Johan van der Auwera at the University of Antwerp, Guido van den Wyngaerd and Jeroen van Craenenbroeck at the Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel, Lobke Aelbrecht and Liliane Haegeman at Ghent University, who focus on Flemish dialects.

• English dialects are investigated by:

- Benedikt Szmrecsanyi and Bernd Kortmann within FRED (Freiburg English Dialect Corpus).

- Christina Tortora within a project on Appalachian English.

- Raffaella Zanuttini within the Yale Grammatical Diversity Project: English in North America.

• Faroese dialects are investigated by Caroline Heycock and Antonella Sorace within the project Verb movement in contemporary Faroese.
  

• Frisian dialects are investigated by Eric Hoekstra and Jarich Hoekstra within the SAND project.
  

• German dialect are investigated by:

- Ellen Brandner within in SynAlm (Syntax of Alemannic).

- Jurg Fleischer, Helmut Weiss and Alexandra Lenz within the SyHD (Syntax Hessian Dialects) project.

- Elvira Glaser within the SADS (Syntactic Atlas of Swiss German) project.

- Birgit Alber who focuses on Cimbrian dialects of German at the University of Verona.

• Icelandic dialects are investigated by Höskuldur Tráinsson within the ScanDiaSyn project.
  

• Norwegian dialects are investigated by Øystein Vangsnes and Janne Bondi Johannessen within the ScanDiaSyn project, and by Peter Svenonius within NORMS (Nordic Center of Excellence in Microcomparative Syntax).
  

• Swedish dialects are investigated by Maia Andreasson and Lars-Olof Delsing within the ScanDiaSyn project.