Dialect Areas
NORMS explores syntactic variation across the Scandinavian-speaking area; the best-understood boundaries are those between the national standards: Icelandic, Faroese, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish. But there are boundaries internal to all of these areas as well, and linguistic properties are shared across the national borders without necessarily being shared by the national standards. We hope to be able to identify the most important boundaries for syntactic phenomena, and to compare these to the boundaries which have been observed for phonological and lexical phenomena.
scandinavia

NORMS has organized a dialect meeting more or less every semester during the project period. For each dialect meeting a particular dialect area has been chosen for detailed studies. The dialects chosen have been studied for their characteristics with respect to the various properties investigated in the thematic groups and by the individual participating researchers. So far seven dialect meetings have been organized, the last one in September 2009 (Fosen), and another two dialect meetings are being planned to take place in the last year of the project period:

June 2006 Northern Ostrobothnia, Östman
(see also the ScanDiaSyn blog)
October/November 2006 Northern Norway; Senja, Vangsnes
(see also the ScanDiaSyn blog)
May/June 2007 Älvdalen, Rosenkvist et al.
(see also the ScanDiaSyn blog)
January 2008 Western Jutland, Thagaard Hagedorn, Jørgensen, and Vikner
(see also the ScanDiaSyn blog)
August 2008
 Faroe Islands, Thráinsson
(see also the ScanDiaSyn blog and the index of individual reports therein)
May 2009 “Inner Scandinavia”, Julien
(see also the ScanDiaSyn blog)
September 2009 Trøndelag; Fosen, Eide and Eriksen
(see also the ScanDiaSyn blog
Spring 2010 Bornholm, Jørgensen, Rosenkvist et al.
Fall 2010 Sogn (og Fjordane), Vangsnes