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Projects
CORDIAL-SIN: Syntax-oriented Corpus of Portuguese Dialects
Research Team:
Ana Maria Martins (coordinator) (CLUL)
Adriana Cardoso (CLUL) (since July 2007)
Ernestina Carrilho (CLUL)
Maria Lobo (CLUNL)
Catarina Magro (CLUL)
Cristina Morgado (CLUL) (since January 2008)
Sandra Pereira (CLUL)
Collaborators:
André Eliseu (CLUL) (from October 1999 to December 2003)
Adriana Cardoso (CLUL) (from November 1999 to July 2000)
Consultants:
Sjef Barbiers (Meertens Instituut — Netherlands)
Charlotte Galves (University of Campinas — São Paulo, Brasil)
Anthony Kroch (University of Pennsylvania — USA)
João Saramago (CLUL)
Partners:
- Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa (CLUL) / Fundação da Universidade de Lisboa (FUL) — leader
- Centro de Linguística da Universidade Nova de Lisboa / Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCSH-UNL)
Funding:
FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia:
- CORDIAL-SIN (concluded project) - PRAXIS XXI/P/PLP/13046/1998
- CORDIAL-SIN, Phase 2 (concluded project) - POSI/PLP/33275/1999
- Dialect Syntax (concluded project) - POCTI/LIN/46980/2002
- DUPLEX (ongoing project) - PTDC/LIN/71559/2006
Goals :
- Studying the syntax of European Portuguese dialects within the framework of the Principles and Parameters theory.
- Developing and enhancing research activity on syntactic dialect variation in Portugal (in partnership with the EdiSyn — European Dialect Syntax project).
- Building up and making available online the Syntax-oriented Corpus of Portuguese Dialects (CORDIAL-SIN). This corpus will be updated and improved on a regular basis. The existence of the corpus feeds the goals expressed in 1. and 2. above.
- Exploiting existing resources in order to make them available to the scientific community and relevant for the development of the field of comparative dialectal syntax. A rich recorded speech collection owned by CLUL provides the 'raw material' for the constitution of the Syntax-oriented Corpus of Portuguese Dialects.