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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 00:55, 27 January 2025

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 "


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