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Project

Quantity and quality in linguistics: reverse dialectometry.

This research proposal is situated on the border between formal-theoretical and quantitative-statistical linguistics. It combines a quantitative methodology with formal-theoretical hypotheses. On the one hand it investigates to what extent theoretical analyses of language phenomena can narrow down the hypothesis space created by quantitative-statistical analyses of large digital collections of language data, but on the other hand the quantitative findings also serve as a testing ground for the linguistic hypotheses. The project thus tries to establish a fruitful bidirectional cooperation between two subdisciplines of linguistics that traditionally do not communicate or collaborate much with one another. The empirical focus of the project is verb clusters in Dutch dialects.
Date:1 Oct 2015 →  30 Sep 2019
Keywords:Dutch dialects, verb clusters, dialectometry, syntax
Disciplines:Linguistics, Theory and methodology of linguistics, Other languages and literary studies, Language studies, Literary studies