Mijn paper Measuring Syntactic Variation in Dutch Dialects zal aan het eind van dit jaar verschijnen in Progress in Dialectometry, a special issue of Literary and Linguistic Computing - selected proceedings of a workshop at Methods in Dialectology XII, Moncton, Aug. 5, 2005.
Dit paper beschrijft de stand van mijn onderzoek tot eind vorig jaar. Ik ben uiteindelijk zeer tevreden met het resultaat, wat mede komt door het nogal kritische commentaar van één van de twee anonieme reviewers op de oorspronkelijke versie... Dus, beargumenteerd commentaar is altijd welkom!
Abstract:
"This research applies dialectometric methods to purely syntactic dialect data. It will be shown that there is geographic cohesion in syntactic variation when viewed in the aggregate. The amount of syntactic variation which can be accounted for by geography will be determined. Dialectometric techniques will be used to develop an additive measure of syntactic differences. Multidimensional scaling will be applied to visualise the geographic distribution of the Dutch dialects with respect to syntactic variation in the aggregate. The Dutch dialect map based on a syntactic measure will be compared with a dialect map based on subjective judgements and a dialect map based on pronunciation differences to put the syntactic measurement results into perspective. An alternative way to measure syntactic distance will be presented and will provide indications for future research to more accurately quantify syntactic variation."
