CLARIN-NL - Dialectology

MIMORE

root — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 08:38:48 +0000

Title

MIMORE: Microcomparative Morphosyntax Research Tool

Description

With the MIMORE search engine one can search three databases together, with text strings, part of speech tags and syntactic variables. The researcher can combine categories and features into complex tags or use predefined tags. All categories and features are defined in ISOcat. Since all sentences have a location code, the morphosyntactic phenomena found in a set of sentences resulting from a search can be automatically plotted on a geographic map. It is possible to include more than one morphosyntactic phenomenon in one map, thus visualizing potential correlations between these phenomena. There is also a user-friendly function to export the data to a statistical program. The data in DynaSAND, the dynamic syntactic atlas of the Dutch dialects (http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/sand/ (link is external)), were collected between 2000 and 2005 by oral interviews (fieldwork and telephone) in about 300 locations across The Netherlands, Belgium and a small part of north-west France. Dialect speakers were asked to judge and/or translate some 150 test sentences. DynaSAND makes available the full recordings and transcriptions of these interviews. Together, the DynSAND data cover the syntactic variation in the Dutch language area in the left periphery of the clause (the complementizer system and complementizer agreement), variation in subject pronoun form depending on syntactic position, subject pronoun doubling, cliticization on YES/NO, the reflexive system, fronting constructions (Wh-clauses, relative clauses, topicalization), word order and morphological variation in verb clusters, negation and quantification. The data in DiDDD (Diversity in Dutch DP Design; http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/diddd/ (link is external)) were collected between 2005 and 2009 with oral and written interviews in about 200 locations in the Dutch language area, with a methodology highly parallel to DynaSAND. The data involve translations of and judgements on test sentences. For 29 interviews there are sound recordings which have been lined up with their transcriptions. The DIDDD data cover the morphosyntactic variation within nominal groups, in particular possessives, partitives, noun ellipsis, the demonstrative system, the numeral modification system, what-for constructions, quantitative er, adjectival inflection, negation and exclamatives. The data in GTRP (Goeman, Taeldeman, van Reenen Project; http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/mand/database/ (link is external)) were collected between 1979 and 2000 with oral interviews in about 600 locations in the Dutch language area. Informants were asked to translate words or short sentences. Part of the transcriptions have been lined up with the sound recordings. The morphological data in GTRP include plural forms of nouns, diminutives, gender on nouns and adjectives, comparatives, superlatives, verbal inflection including participles, subject, object and possessive pronouns.

Project

MIMORE

CLARIN National Project

CLARIN-NL

CLARIAH-CORE

CLARIN centre

Meertens/HuC

Research domain

Linguistics

Linguistic Subject

Dialectology

Morphology

Syntax

Tool task

corpus searching

corpus browsing

analysis

visualisation

Country

Netherlands

Input Language

Dutch

Access Contact

/mailto:info@meertens.knaw.nl/

Project Contact

prof. dr. Sjef Barbiers

Creator Contact

prof. dr. Sjef Barbiers

Documentation

Demonstration of the Microcomparative Morphosyntactic Research Tool

Architectuur MIMORE

MIMORE Video

Source code

not specified

Original source

http://portal.clarin.nl/node/1911

Publications

S. Barbiers, M. van Koppen, H. Bennis, N. Corver, MIcrocomparative MOrphosyntactic REsearch (MIMORE): Mapping partial grammars of Flemish, Brabantish and Dutch. Lingua Vol. 178, 5-31. doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2015.10.018

Resource

SearchPage

SearchService

CMDI File Link

License

unknown

Inventory Scope

local

MIGMAP

root — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 08:38:48 +0000

Title

MIGMAP: Detailed interactive mapping of migration in The Netherlands in the 20th century.

Description

MIGMAP is a web application that can show migration flow between Dutch municipalities. The user first chooses generation (forward or backward in time) and gender, while subsequently the migration map of The Netherlands related to an interactively pointed municipality (or other aggregation unit) is shown. The data underlying the migration maps originate from the first name selection from the Civil Registration, acquired by Utrecht University and the Meertens Institute in 2006. These concern 16 million records from persons with Dutch citizenship, alive in 2006, and in addition 6 million persons deceased before 2006, but mentioned in other records – mainly as parents. The records include identifiers by which family relations can be reconstructed. After considerable efforts in data clearing and reconstruction of older generations, the data provide an almost complete overview of the Dutch population, born after 1930, and a fairly good sample from the period 1880-1930 (>25%). The user will be given options to choose generation (places of birth of the current population, their parents, grandparents grand-grandparents, or starting with the persons born between 1880-1900: the current places of residence of their children, grandchildren), and gender. Each map will be made available as a .csv record with municipality number and percentage as fields, and thus can be used by users in correlation studies with other variables. Utrecht University and the Meertens Institute have the signed permission of the "Basisadministratie voor Persoonsgegevens en Reisdocumenten, The Hague" to use the data for scientific purposes. The migration maps present the data in an aggregated way, and do not violate privacy requirements (no individual can possibly be identified from the maps). However, the underlying data containing information about individual persons and their family relations cannot be made available for reasons of privacy.

Project

MIGMAP

CLARIN National Project

CLARIN-NL

CLARIN centre

Meertens/HuC

Research domain

Linguistics

History

Linguistic Subject

Dialectology

Onomatology

Sociolinguistics

Tool task

searching

browsing

visualisation

analysis

Country

Netherlands

Tool Type

web application

Research Phase

Data analysis

Tool status

published

Output format

text/csv

Input Language

Dutch

Access Contact

/mailto:info@meertens.knaw.nl/

Project Contact

/mailto:info@meertens.knaw.nl/

Creator Contact

dr. ir. G. Bloothooft

Documentation

Background information - Instructions for use

Source code

not specified

Original source

http://portal.clarin.nl/node/1930

Publications

Bloothooft, G, Onland, D and Kunst, J.P. 2017. Mapping Migration across Generations. In: Odijk, J and van Hessen, A. (eds.) CLARIN in the Low Countries, Pp. 351–360. London: Ubiquity Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/bbi.29. License: CC-BY 4.0

Ekamper, P. en Bloothooft, G. (2013), "Weg van je wortels. De afstand tussen overgrootouders en achterkleinkinderen", DEMOS 29, 2, p8.

Resource

CMDI File Link

License

Creative Commons (non-commercial)

Inventory Scope

local

Gabmap

root — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 08:38:48 +0000

Title

Description

Gabmap is a free web-based application for dialectometry. It measures the differences in sets of phonetic (or phonemic) transcriptions via edit distance. Gabmap has a graphical user interface that makes string comparison facility available as a web application. This enables wider experimentation with the techniques. Gabmap (a.k.a. ADEPT) measures pronunciation distances based on transcriptions and aligns pronunciation transcription data. Because the measurements are numeric, they can be aggregated in order to obtain an estimation of overall pronunciation differences among varieties. The software uses a range of edit distance (or Levenshtein) algorithms. It is useful for dialectologists, and has been used extensively in dialectology. It has occasionally been used for other purposes, e.g. trying to identify loan words automatically (Paris, Musée de l’Homme, central Asian project involving Turkic and also Indo-Iranian languages). The software has also been used as the basis of a program to multi-align pronunciation data for the purpose of phylogenetic analysis. The Gabmap developers claim that the program could also be used to measure deviant pronunciation e.g. of second-language learners, or of speakers with speech defects. A variety of related algorithms are implemented in the package of C programs (and R programs) the developers turned into a web application, including a basic version regarding segments only as same or different, and other versions variously respecting consonant/vowel distinctions; using phonetic segment distances as provided via an assignment of phonetic or phonological features to segments; using segment distances as learned from refining alignment correspondences; and applying weightings derived from (inverse) frequency (derived from Goebl’s work) or depending on the position within a word. There are useful auxiliary programs aimed at assisting users in converting phonetic data to X-SAMPA and at spotting errors. (In working with users in the past, the developers have noted that data conversion is a major hurdle.) There are additional meta-analytical calculations aimed at gauging how reliable the signal is from a given set of data, and aimed at comparing various options with respect to the degree to which they capture the geographic cohesion one assumes in dialectology. Gabmap was developed in the CLARIN-NL project ADEPT: Assaying Differences via Edit-Distance of Pronunciation Transcriptions.

Project

ADEPT

CLARIN National Project

CLARIN-NL

CLARIN centre

Meertens/HuC

Research domain

Linguistics

Linguistic Subject

Dialectology

Phonetics

Phonology

Tool task

visualisation

analysis

Country

Netherlands

Tool Type

web application

Research Phase

Data analysis

Tool status

published

Output format

application/pdf

Input Language

Language independent

Access Contact

/mailto:info@gabmap.nl/

Meertens Institute

Project Contact

Dr. Charlotte Gooskens

Creator Contact

Peter Kleiweg

Documentation

Gabmap Tutorial

Demonstrator Scenario

Gabmap: Quick Start

Source code

not specified

Original source

http://portal.clarin.nl/node/1917

Publications

Nerbonne, J., Colen, R., Gooskens, C., Kleiweg, P., and Leinonen, T. (2011). Gabmap — A Web Application for Dialectology. Dialectologica, Special issue II, 65-89.

T. Leinonen, Ç. Çöltekin, J. Nerbonne, Using Gabmap. Lingua Vol. 178, 71-83, doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2015.02.004

Resource

CMDI File Link

License

unknown

Inventory Scope

local

COAVA

root — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 08:38:48 +0000

Title

COAVA: Cognition, Acquisition and Variation Tool

Description

In COAVA two sets of databases are made available in a standardized way: one with historical dialect data (the databases WBD and WLD with lexical data of the Brabantish and Limburgian dialect between 1880-1980) and one with first language acquisition data (four databases form the CHILDES project). The databases contain linguistic information (dialect form, standardised form (“Dutchified”), lexical meaning), geographical information (locality, dialect area, province) and information on the source (inquiry forms or monotopic dictionaries and the date of documentation). The visualisation of the first two sets of information will lead to lexical maps. The most typical way for the user to get to the data will be with the use of the browsable concept taxonomy. The databases are, in other words, approachable via search tools but also via a thematic taxonomy. This taxonomy was developed for the dialect databases and covers the general vocabulary. COAVA (COgnition, Acquisition and VAriation Tool) brings together two strange bedfellows: first language acquisition and historical dialectology. In historical linguistics there is the common assumption that language change in the past is due to the process of non-target like transmission of linguistic features between generations i.e. between parents and children. Despite this assumption, both disciplines remain isolated from each other due to, among others, different methods of data-collection and different types of resources with empirical data. The aim of the COAVA project was to demonstrate that the common assumption in historical linguistics, mentioned above, can be examined in detail with the help of Digital Humanities. This interdisciplinary research targets at the development of a tool for easily exploring the linguistic characteristics of concepts. In COAVA two sets of databases are made available in a standardized way: one with historical dialect data (the databases WBD and WLD with lexical data of the Brabantish and Limburgian dialect between 1880-1980) and one with first language acquisition data (four databases form the CHILDES project).

Project

COAVA

CLARIN National Project

CLARIN-NL

CLARIN centre

Meertens/HuC

Research domain

Linguistics

Linguistic Subject

Dialectology

Lexicology

historical linguistics

language acquisition

Tool task

corpus searching

browsing

analysis

visualisation

other

Country

Netherlands

Tool Type

web application

Research Phase

Browsing and Searching

Data analysis

Tool status

published

Input Language

Dutch

Access Contact

Dr. L. Cornips

Project Contact

/mailto:leonie.cornips@meertens.knaw.nl/

Creator Contact

Dr. L. Cornips

Documentation

Gebruikershandleiding bij de COAVA web applicatie

Source code

not specified

Original source

http://portal.clarin.nl/node/1928

Publications

Leonie Cornips, Jos Swanenberg, Wilbert Heeringa, Folkert de Vriend (2016). The relationship between first language acquisition and dialect variation: Linking resources from distinct disciplines in a CLARIN-NL project. Lingua, Vol. 178, 07.2016, p. 32-45. doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2015.11.007

Cornips, L., Swanenberg, J., Vriend, F. de, Heeringa, W. (2012), Is what we have acquired early, less vulnerable to variation? A comparison between data from dialectlexicography and data from first language acquisition. http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/coavasite/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Abstract-SIDG-2-JS.pdf

Cornips, L., Kemps-Snijders, M., Snijders, M., Swanenberg, J. and Vriend, F. de (2011). Bridging the Gap between First Language Acquisition and Historical Dialectology with the Help of Digital Humanities. SDH Copenhagen. http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/coavasite/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Paper-SDH.pdf

Resource

LandingPage

CMDI File Link

License

unknown

Inventory Scope

local

Dictionary of the Limburgian Dialects, Part III (General Vocabulary)

Jan Odijk — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 13:05:41 +0000

Dictionary of the Limburgian Dialects

Summary

Dictionary of the Limburgian Dialects, Part III (General Vocabulary)

Background

The dictionary of the Limburgian dialects, part II (General Vocabulary), abbreviated as WLD, is a semasiologically oriented dictionary. It consists of 14 subcollections, each covering a certain topic. The topics covered are:

The Human Body (Het menselijk lichaam)
Movement and Health (Beweging en Gezondheid)
The house (De woning)
Cloths (Kleding)
Family and sexuality (Familie en seksualiteit)
Eating and Drinking (Eten en drinken)
Fauna: Birds (Fauna: vogels)
Fauna: Other Animals ()Fauna: overige dieren)
Flora (Flora)
Part and Pleasure (Feest en vermaak)
Character and Feelings (Karakter en gevoelens)
Church and Religion (Kerk en geloof)
Social behaviour, School and Education (Maatschappelijk gedrag, school en onderwijs)
The World (De Wereld)

Contacts

Project leader:  Marc Kemps-Snijders
CLARIN center: Meertens Institute (data at RU)
Help contact

helpdesk@clarin.nl Links

Web-sites: See also http://dialect.ruhosting.nl/wld/
Manual: [ref to end-report]
Data link (VLO): Core Subcollections
Publications:

NOTE: although the metadata is harvested from the Meertens Institute, the actual data is stored at Radboud University and CLARIN centre should be set to "none yet" (DBroeder 2-11-2020)

Country

Netherlands

CLARIN centre

CLST/RU

Language

Dutch

Research domain

Linguistics

Lexicology

Semantics

Dialectology

Resource tags

data

lexicon

Annotations

No Annotation

Linguistic Annotation

Semantic

sense

lexico-semantic relations

hyponyms/hyperonyms

Format

Textual data

XML

TEI

Dictionary of the Brabantic Dialects, Part III (General Vocabulary)

Jan Odijk — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 12:30:35 +0000

Dictionary of the Brabantic Dialects

Summary

Dictionary of the Brabantic Dialects, Part III (General Vocabulary)

Background

The dictionary of the Brabantic dialects, part II (General Vocabulary), abbreviated as WBD, is a semasiologically oriented dictionary. It consists of 14 subcollections, each covering a certain topic. The topics covered are:

The Human Body (Het menselijk lichaam)
Movement and Health (Beweging en Gezondheid)
Cloths (Kleding)
The house (De woning)
The physical and abstract world (De stoffelijke en abstracte wereld)
Family and sexuality (Familie en seksualiteit)
Eating and Drinking (Eten en drinken)
Fauna: Birds (Fauna: vogels)
Fauna: Other Animals ()Fauna: overige dieren)
Flora (Flora)
Part and Pleasure (Feest en vermaak)
Character and Feelings (Karakter en gevoelens)
Church and Religion (Kerk en geloof)
Social behaviour, School and Education (Maatschappelijk gedrag, school en onderwijs)

Contacts

Project leader:  Marc Kemps-Snijders
CLARIN center: Meertens Institute
Help contact

helpdesk@clarin.nl Links

Web-sites: See also http://dialect.ruhosting.nl/wbd/
Manual: [ref to end-report]
Data link (VLO): Core Subcollections
Publications:

NOTE: although the metadata is available from the Meertens Institute, the actual data is stored at Radboud University and CLARIN centre should be set to "CLST" (DB 2-11-2020)

Country

Netherlands

CLARIN centre

CLST/RU

Language

Dutch

Research domain

Literary Studies

Linguistics

Lexicology

Acquisition

Semantics

Dialectology

historical linguistics

Resource tags

data

lexicon

Annotations

No Annotation

Linguistic Annotation

Orthographic

orthographic representation

Semantic

sense

lexico-semantic relations

hyponyms/hyperonyms

Format

Textual data

XML

TEI

MIGMAP

root — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 19:20:30 +0000

MIGMAP: Detailed interactive mapping of migration in The Netherlands in the 20th century.

Summary

Background

The data underlying the migration maps originate from the first name selection from the Civil Registration, acquired by Utrecht University and the Meertens Institute in 2006. These concern 16 million records from persons with Dutch citizenship, alive in 2006, and in addition 6 million persons deceased before 2006, but mentioned in other records – mainly as parents. The records include identifiers by which family relations can be reconstructed. After considerable efforts in data clearing and reconstruction of older generations, the data provide an almost complete overview of the Dutch population, born after 1930, and a fairly good sample from the period 1880-1930 (>25%). The user will be given options to choose generation (places of birth of the current population, their parents, grandparents grand-grandparents, or starting with the persons born between 1880-1900: the current places of residence of their children, grandchildren), and gender. Each map will be made available as a .csv record with municipality number and percentage as fields, and thus can be used by users in correlation studies with other variables. Utrecht University and the Meertens Institute have the signed permission of the “Basisadministratie voor Persoonsgegevens en Reisdocumenten, The Hague” to use the data for scientific purposes. The migration maps present the data in an aggregated way, and do not violate privacy requirements (no individual can possibly be identified from the maps). However, the underlying data containing information about individual persons and their family relations cannot be made available for reasons of privacy.

Contacts

Project leader:  prof. dr. G. Bloothooft (Utrecht University)
CLARIN center: Meertens Institute
Help contact : info@meertens.knaw.nl

Links

Web-sites: http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/migmap/?lang=en
User scenario's (screencasts, screenshots): n.a.
Manual: http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/migmap/achtergrondinformatie/?lang=en
Tool/Service link: http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/migmap/?lang=en
Publications: Ekamper, P. en Bloothooft, G. (2013), "Weg van je wortels. De afstand tussen overgrootouders en achterkleinkinderen", DEMOS 29, 2, p8.

Research domain

History

Linguistics

Onomatology

Sociolinguistics

Dialectology

Language

Dutch

Resource tags

service

web-application

Tool task

analysis

browse

visualisation

CLARIN centre

Meertens/HuC

Country

Netherlands

COAVA

root — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 18:38:41 +0000

COAVA: Cognition, Acquisition and Variation Tool

Summary

Background

COAVA (COgnition, Acquisition and VAriation Tool) brings together two strange bedfellows: first language acquisition and historical dialectology. In historical linguistics there is the common assumption that language change in the past is due to the process of non-target like transmission of linguistic features between generations i.e. between parents and children. Despite this assumption, both disciplines remain isolated from each other due to, among others, different methods of data-collection and different types of resources with empirical data. The aim of the COAVA project was to demonstrate that the common assumption in historical linguistics, mentioned above, can be examined in detail with the help of Digital Humanities. This interdisciplinary research targets at the development of a tool for easily exploring the linguistic characteristics of concepts. In COAVA two sets of databases are made available in a standardized way: one with historical dialect data (the databases WBD and WLD with lexical data of the Brabantish and Limburgian dialect between 1880-1980) and one with first language acquisition data (four databases form the CHILDES project).

Contacts

Project leader:  Dr. L. Cornips (Meertens Institute)
CLARIN center: Meertens Institute
Help contact : leonie.cornips@meertens.knaw.nl

Links

Web-sites: http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/coavasite/
User scenario's (screencasts, screenshots): n.a.
Manual: http://dev.clarin.nl/sites/default/files/User%20manual%20COAVA.pdf
Tool/Service link: http://yago.meertens.knaw.nl/CoavaMainApplication/
Publications:
- Cornips, L., Swananberg, J., Vriend, F. de, Heeringa, W. (2012), Is what we have acquired early, less vulnerable to variation? A comparison between data from dialectlexicography and data from first language acquisition. http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/coavasite/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Abstrac... (pdf)
- Cornips, L., Kemps-Snijders, M., Snijders, M., Swanenberg, J. & Vriend, F. de (2011). Bridging the Gap between First Language Acquisition and Historical Dialectology with the Help of Digital Humanities. SDH Copenhagen. http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/coavasite/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Paper-S... (pdf)

Research domain

Linguistics

Lexicology

Acquisition

Dialectology

historical linguistics

Language

Dutch

Resource tags

corpus

text corpus

service

web-application

Tool task

analysis

browse

visualisation

CLARIN centre

Meertens/HuC

Country

Netherlands

Gabmap

root — Sun, 20 Apr 2014 15:26:35 +0000

ADEPT: Assaying Differences via Edit-Distance of Pronunciation Transcriptions - Gabmap

Summary

Background

Gabmap (a.k.a. ADEPT) measures pronunciation distances based on transcriptions and aligns pronunciation transcription data. Because the measurements are numeric, they can be aggregated in order to obtain an estimation of overall pronunciation differences among varieties. The software uses a range of edit distance (or Levenshtein) algorithms. It is useful for dialectologists, and has been used extensively in dialectology. It has occasionally been used for other purposes, e.g. trying to identify loan words automatically (Paris, Musée de l’Homme, central Asian project involving Turkic and also Indo-Iranian languages). The software has also been used as the basis of a program to multi-align pronunciation data for the purpose of phylogenetic analysis. The Gabmap developers claim that the program could also be used to measure deviant pronunciation e.g. of second-language learners, or of speakers with speech defects.
A variety of related algorithms are implemented in the package of C programs (and R programs) the developers turned into a web application, including a basic version regarding segments only as same or different, and other versions variously respecting consonant/vowel distinctions; using phonetic segment distances as provided via an assignment of phonetic or phonological features to segments; using segment distances as learned from refining alignment correspondences; and applying weightings derived from (inverse) frequency (derived from Goebl’s work) or depending on the position within a word. There are useful auxiliary programs aimed at assisting users in converting phonetic data to X-SAMPA and at spotting errors. (In working with users in the past, the developers have noted that data conversion is a major hurdle.) There are additional meta-analytical calculations aimed at gauging how reliable the signal is from a given set of data, and aimed at comparing various options with respect to the degree to which they capture the geographic cohesion one assumes in dialectology.

Contacts

Project leader:  Dr. Charlotte Gooskens (RUG)
CLARIN center: Meertens Institute
Help contact : info@gabmap.nl (General info), support@gabmap.nl (Technical support)

Links

Web-sites: http://www.gabmap.nl/
User scenario's (screencasts, screenshots): http://www.gabmap.nl/~app/doc/IntroVideo/
Manual: http://www.gabmap.nl/~app/doc/tutorials/tutorial/index.htm, http://www.gabmap.nl/~app/doc/preparing/ (quick start)
Tool/Service link: http://www.gabmap.nl/~app/bin/home
Publications: Nerbonne, J., Colen, R., Gooskens, C., Kleiweg, P., and Leinonen, T. (2011). Gabmap — A Web Application for Dialectology. Dialectologica, Special issue II, 65-89.

Research domain

Linguistics

Phonetics

Phonology

Dialectology

Language

Language independent

Resource tags

service

web-application

Tool task

analysis

visualisation

CLARIN centre

Meertens/HuC

Country

Netherlands

MIMORE

root — Sun, 20 Apr 2014 13:05:55 +0000

MIMORE: Microcomparative Morphosyntax Research Tool

Summary

The MIMORE tool enables researchers to investigate morphosyntactic variation in the Dutch dialects by searching three related databases with a common on-line search engine. The search results can be visualized on geographic maps and exported for statistical analysis. The three databases involved are DynaSAND (the dynamic syntactic atlas of the Dutch dialects), DiDDD (Diversity in Dutch DP Design) and GTRP (Goeman, Taeldeman, van Reenen Project).

Background

With the MIMORE search engine one can search three databases together, with text strings, part of speech tags and syntactic variables. The researcher can combine categories and features into complex tags or use predefined tags. All categories and features are defined in ISOcat. Since all sentences have a location code, the morphosyntactic phenomena found in a set of sentences resulting from a search can be automatically plotted on a geographic map. It is possible to include more than one morphosyntactic phenomenon in one map, thus visualizing potential correlations between these phenomena. There is also a user-friendly function to export the data to a statistical program.

The data in DynaSAND, the dynamic syntactic atlas of the Dutch dialects (http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/sand/), were collected between 2000 and 2005 by oral interviews (fieldwork and telephone) in about 300 locations across The Netherlands, Belgium and a small part of north-west France. Dialect speakers were asked to judge and/or translate some 150 test sentences. DynaSAND makes available the full recordings and transcriptions of these interviews. Together, the DynSAND data cover the syntactic variation in the Dutch language area in the left periphery of the clause (the complementizer system and complementizer agreement), variation in subject pronoun form depending on syntactic position, subject pronoun doubling, cliticization on YES/NO, the reflexive system, fronting constructions (Wh-clauses, relative clauses, topicalization), word order and morphological variation in verb clusters, negation and quantification.

The data in DiDDD (Diversity in Dutch DP Design; http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/diddd/) were collected between 2005 and 2009 with oral and written interviews in about 200 locations in the Dutch language area, with a methodology highly parallel to DynaSAND. The data involve translations of and judgements on test sentences. For 29 interviews there are sound recordings which have been lined up with their transcriptions. The DIDDD data cover the morphosyntactic variation within nominal groups, in particular possessives, partitives, noun ellipsis, the demonstrative system, the numeral modification system, what-for constructions, quantitative er, adjectival inflection, negation and exclamatives.

The data in GTRP (Goeman, Taeldeman, van Reenen Project; http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/mand/database/) were collected between 1979 and 2000 with oral interviews in about 600 locations in the Dutch language area. Informants were asked to translate words or short sentences. Part of the transcriptions have been lined up with the sound recordings. The morphological data in GTRP include plural forms of nouns, diminutives, gender on nouns and adjectives, comparatives, superlatives, verbal inflection including participles, subject, object and possessive pronouns.

Contacts

Project leader: prof. dr. Sjef Barbiers (Meertens Institute & Utrecht University)  
CLARIN center: Meertens Institute
Help contact : info@meertens.knaw.nl

Links