GramAdapt Crosslinguistic Social Contact Dataset

The GramAdapt Crosslinguistic Social Contact Dataset is a pioneering dataset with social, cultural, and demographic data about contact scenarios from across the globe. The data mostly concern interactions between a Focus language community and it's Neighbour language community, with 34 contact pairs represented. The data are qualitative with quantitative potential, where language community experts have provided best-assessment answers to questions about social contact in their communities of expertise.

This dataset has been created in the project Linguistic Adaptation: Typological and Sociolinguistic Perspectives to Language Variation. The project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 805371; PI Kaius Sinnemäki), and has been hosted at the University of Helsinki.