The Syntactic Atlas of the Dutch Dialects (SAND): A Corpus of Elicited Speech and Text as an Online Dynamic Atlas
Sjef Barbiers, Leonie M.E.A. Cornips, Jan Pieter Kunst · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 2007
The Syntactic Atlas of the Dutch Dialects (SAND) corpus is one of the outputs of a large-scale dialect syntax project conducted between 2000 and 2003 in The Netherlands and the Dutch-speaking parts of Belgium and France.1 The goal of the project was twofold: To create an electronic atlas serving as a tool for linguistic research. This freely accessible web-based dynamic atlas (DynaSand; http:// www.meertens.nl/sand/)consists of a data corpus, a user-friendly search engine and cartographic software for the online generation of maps. It contains data from 267 dialects collected in oral and telephone interviews and in a postal survey. To produce a more traditional printed atlas that visualizes syntactic variation in the dialects of Dutch. Every map in the atlas is provided with: (a) a linguistic description of specific syntactic variables, (b) a discussion of the attested geographical distribution (including a diachronic perspective when that is applicable), and (c) a bibliography. Volume I (Barbiers et al . appeared in June 2005. Volume II is expected to appear in 2007).