ASIt: A Grammatical Survey of Italian Dialects and Cimbrian: Fieldwork, Data Management, and Linguistic Analysis

ASIt aims to observe, collect and analyse the linguistic variation displayed by the dialects of a language. The main theoretical hypothesis is that linguistic variation is not due to chance, but depends on the combination of a finite number of parameters. It is a first step towards the creation of a European digital library for recording and studying linguistic micro-variation