Department Colloquium: Syntactic Variation in Swiss German: Preliminary Results from Two Case Studies
Time
Thursday, 7. November 2019
11:45 - 13:15
Location
G 307
Organizer
Department of Linguistics
Speaker:
Eric Haeberli (University of Geneva)
This paper presents some preliminary results of a long-term project investigating syntactic variation in Swiss German. Based on a parsed corpus of spontaneous speech of currently about 900’000 words, we will focus on the variation that can be found in two areas of the grammar: (1) The distribution of the verbal elements in the verb cluster (Verb (Projection) Raising); (2) V2 vs V3.