Corpus linguistics is a methodology that draws on systematic collections of naturalistic,
machine‐readable texts to make claims about linguistic phenomena and/or linguistic …

Methods and Objectives in Contemporary Dialectology Benedikt Szmrecsanyi 1. Introduction:
Old-school dialectology Dialectologica Page 1 1 Methods and Objectives in Contemporary …

We present three approaches to corpus-based dialectometry and apply them to
morphosyntactic variation in the Freiburg Corpus of English Dialects, which covers 34 …

Researchers in dialectometry have begun to explore measurements based on
fundamentally quantitative metrics, often sourced from dialect corpora, as an alternative to …

The origins of prepositional phrase structure in Finnic languages shows little evidence of
being contact-induced. However, whether language contact has influenced the structure at a …

Szmrescanyi (2013): 57 pre-selected syntactic features based on earlier dialectological
literature and atlases (most of it itself based on elicited data collection), relatively superficial …

Dialectology has two main aims:(i) to catalogue the attested linguistic features per location
and (ii) to find spatial patterns in the variation between these features. In pursuing the first …

Dialectology has two main aims:(i) to catalogue the attested linguistic features per location
and (ii) to find spatial patterns in the variation between these features. In pursuing the first …

The conference Methods in Dialectology XV was held in Groningen on 11–15 August 2014.
In October 2014 we issued a call for a contribution to a volume of proceedings, which led to …

Methods It is best to begin an introduction to the methods section of the handbook, which
deals with gathering and analyzing data, with two near‐platitudes that are not always kept in …