User:Mchapma1/Language selection

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)

Swiss german, Zürich

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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

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Plattdeutsch

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