Elvira Glaser is a professor of Germanic philology at the University of Zurich. She participates in the Research Program Language and Space with her research on dialectology. She is the project leader of the project Dialektsyntax des Schweizerdeutschen (Dialect syntax of Swiss German) at the University of Zurich.
Elvira Glaser was one of the co-organizers of the workshop Mass and Count in Romance and Germanic Languages at the University of Zurich on 16-17 December 2013.
Partitive structures in German and German dialects are analyzed in the following papers:
Glaser, Elvira. 1992. Umbau partitiver Strukturen in der Geschichte des Deutschen. Sprachwissenschaft 17.2, 113-132.
Glaser, Elvira. 1993. Syntaktische Strategien zum Ausdruck von Indefinitheit und Partitivität im Deutschen (Standardsprache und Dialekt). In Werner Abraham & Josef Bayer (eds.), Dialektsyntax, 99-116. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag.
On dialectology and the Syntactic Atlas of Swiss German the following papers were published:
Sibler, Pius, Robert Weibler, Elvira Glaser & Gabriela Bart. 2012. Cartographic Visualization in Support of Dialectology. In: The 2012 AutoCarto International Symposium on Automated Cartography, Columbus, Ohio, USA, 16 September 2012 – 18 September 2012.
Bucheli, Claudia & Elvira Glaser: The Syntactic Atlas of Swiss German Dialects: empirical and methodological problems. In: Barbiers, Sjef; Cornips, Leonie & van der Kleij, Susanne (eds.): Syntactic Microvariation. Amsterdam: Meertens Institute Electronic Publications in Linguistics, vol. II, 41–74.
Bucheli Berger, Claudia, Elvira Glaser & Guido Seiler. 2012. Is a syntactic dialectology possible? Contributions from Swiss German. In: Ender, Andrea; Leemann, Adrian & Wälchli, Bernhard (eds.): Methods in Contemporary Linguistics. Trends in Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 93–119.
Bart, Gabriela, Elvira Glaser, Pius Sibler & Robert Weibel. 2013. Analysis of Swiss German Syntactic Variants Using Spatial Statistics. In: Álvarez Pérez, Xosé Afonso; Carrilho, Ernestina & Magro, Catarina (eds.): Current Approaches to Limits and Areas in Dialectology. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 143–171.