Aurrekoetxea, G., Ensunza, A., Skofic, J. & Van de Velde, H. (eds.) (2023). Special Issue X of Dialectologia, Dialect Classifications of Languages in Europe, part 1. http://www.edicions.ub.edu/revistes/dialectologiasp2022/
https://www.diacl.eu

Europe is the cradle of dialectology and the study of geographical language variation has in most European countries a tradition lasting for about a century. Regional variation and the dialects of national languages of indigenous minority languages spoken in Europe have been studied from different linguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives. Classifications of dialects and dialect groups have been produced for a lot of these languages. Despite the numerous language-centred dialect studies and studies focussing on dialect variation across language borders and on larger geographical areas, such as Europe (e.g., Atlas Linguarum Europae, European Dialect Syntax), there was no publication that attempted to collect and analyse the dialect classifications in the endogenous languages spoken in Europe. DIACLEU, Dialect Classifications of Languages in Europe, fills this gap in a series of issues of the journal Dialectologia, an open access online scientific journal, not charging any processing or publication costs. DIACLEU is the result of a panel organised at ICLaVE|10 in Leeuwarden.
The aim of DIACLEU is to publish a comprehensive, state-of-the-art and historical overview of dialect classifications of the indigenous languages spoken in Europe. The project collects all the classifications published from the 19th century until now for each of the languages and makes them, in English, accessible for an international audience, following a fixed format. In order to compare and analyse the classifications within and between languages, emphasis has been placed on the theoretical frameworks in which they have been developed. Each contribution focuses on the theoretical framework, the linguistic features used in the classifications, the methodology and – if applicable – the statistical techniques. Each classification is critically evaluated by the author(s).
This poster has the following aims:
• Make the project known among scholars of language variation and change in Europe;
• Introduce the criteria, principles and requirements for inclusion in DIACLEU;
• Present a first analysis of the theoretical and methodological tendencies, based on dialect classification of ± 30 languages;
• Find authors for languages that are not yet included in the project.