Diachronic and Diatopic Linguistics (ΔiaLing)
ΔiaLing continues a long tradition of dialectological (incl. syntactic) research at the UGent. ΔiaLing crucially contributes to this network many years of experience in the creation of and research with parsed corpora of non-standard varieties and dialects, such as the parsed Corpus of Historical Low German and the Parsed Corpus of European Spanish Dialects (with colleagues from Cambridge University and Autonomous University of Madrid), or the parsed Gesproken Corpus van de (zuidelijk-)Nederlandse dialecten (‘Spoken Corpus of the (southern) Dutch dialects’) (cf. https://research.flw.ugent.be/en/dialing > projects). New collaborative data gathering techniques are also explored, as in the Spanish Dialects App project (Dialectos del español: www.dialectosdelespanol.org) with colleagues from VarIbero, and the Hercules project on the Parsed Corpus of European Spanish Dialects through video gaming.