GramAdapt Crosslinguistic Social Contact Dataset

This dataset is a first attempt at collecting socio-cultural-demographic data about contact scenarios, including attempts at quantification as well as qualitative elaborations by respondents. Respondents were approached as academic collaborators, not as volunteers in an experiment. Respondents were not chosen at random. Respondents were chosen based on their published research and fieldwork experience with either or both Focus and Neighbour language communities.

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.