Difference between revisions of "User:Mchapma1/Language selection"
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Swiss German, Zürich is an analytic language. It has morphemes for gender and case, uses distinct helping verbs for tense. | Swiss German, Zürich is an analytic language. It has morphemes for gender and case, uses distinct helping verbs for tense. | ||
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==== Available Corpora ==== | ==== Available Corpora ==== | ||
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| + | There are a number of resources for Swiss german, the difficult challenge is locating data specific to Zürich. For general Swiss German data we have resources like Wikipedia '''[https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Houptsyte_(Schwyzerdütsch)]'''. | ||
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| + | There are also numerous other corpuses like the Swiss SMS corpus'''[https://sms.linguistik.uzh.ch]'''. | ||
==Romansh == | ==Romansh == | ||
Revision as of 00:57, 27 January 2025
Contents
With whom I would like to work
- Needs to be a Bi-Co student
- Someone who is interested in German dialects
- Someone who is interested in Cross Serial Dependencies (I.e.[1] Hans Mary Max swim jump run" being grammatical)
Language Selection
Swiss german, Zürich
Morphological Typology
Swiss German, Zürich is an analytic language. It has morphemes for gender and case, uses distinct helping verbs for tense.
Swiss German is famous for constructions like "Hans Mary Max swim jump run" which are grammatical. It has contributed a lot to the question of whether natural language is context free.
Basic Information
ISO: GSW.
Most Swiss german speakers are also literate, and/or speak swiss standard german, which is nearly identical to Standard german as spoken in Germany. As a highly educated and multilingual nation most speakers also speak French (and/or italian), and English.
Available Corpora
There are a number of resources for Swiss german, the difficult challenge is locating data specific to Zürich. For general Swiss German data we have resources like Wikipedia [2].
There are also numerous other corpuses like the Swiss SMS corpus[3].
Romansh
Placeholder text for Romansh
Plattdeutsch
Placeholder text for Plattdeutsch
