Dutch Linguistics

The Leiden team studies syntactic variation from a theoretical, dialectological, computational, and quantitative point of view. Barbiers and van Alem are building on the work of the Syntactic Atlas of the Dutch Dialects, concentrating on topics such as variation in the syntax of agreement, pronouns and fronting in imperative clauses in the dialects of Dutch, combining theoretical and dialectological methods. Kroon investigates and develops computational methods for the automatic extraction of crossdialectal and cross-linguistic syntactic differences. Prokic is using data mining and machine learning techniques to investigate the clustering of linguistic properties and the synchronic and diachronic relatedness of language varieties. Barbiers is involved in the Dutch national research infrastructure project CLARIAH Plus. The unit will thus contribute infrastructural, computational, quantitative and theoretical expertise and research to the network.

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