In the SAND-project dialectological, sociolinguistic and generative syntactic researchers in the Netherlands and in Dutch-speaking Belgium join forces in order to investigate and visualise the geographic distribution of syntactic variation in the Dutch dialects. The project is demanding with respect to methodology since up to now there is no standard procedure for syntactic elicitation techniques in dialect research with respect to large atlas projects. Hence, in several dialect atlas projects in The Netherlands and in the Dutch speaking part of Belgium the focus has always been on lexical, phonological and morphological variables. This corresponds to atlas projects all over the world in which no more than five percent of published dialect maps involve syntactic data (Gerritsen 1991:9). Recently, several syntactic r5"
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