Language structure: variation and change
The Utrecht team offers expertise in the formal linguistic and sociolinguistic study of dialectal variation, based on current and past research projects such as the NWO-funded Diversity in Dutch DP Design (Corver, Van Koppen), Microcontact (ERC, d’Alessandro), and Advancing the European multilingual experience (ATHEME, European Research Consortium grant, Corver). The members of this group have expertise in a wide range of methodologies to investigate language structure, variation, and change, including experiments, philology, corpus studies, questionnaire studies, observation, interviews, and in-depth description and analysis within a formal linguistic or sociolinguistic framework.