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     * Zurich: Elisabeth Stark, Christa Dürscheid
     * Bern: Crispin Thurlow, Silvia Natale
-    * Neuchâtel: Federica Diémoz
+    * Neuchâtel: Federica Diémoz†
     * Leipzig: Beat Siebenhaar
     * Project duration: 36 months (1/1/2016 – 31/12/2018) plus an extension until early 2020
 Overall Research Questions:
-  - What do Swiss WhatsApp messages look like? What has changed overall between Swiss SMS and Swiss WhatsApp messages, and why (as regards linguistic structures, use of images in a broad sense, spelling, register-specific style, individualization vs. accommodation).
+  - What do Swiss WhatsApp messages look like? What has changed overall between Swiss SMS and Swiss WhatsApp messages, and why (as regards linguistic structures, use of images in a broad sense, spelling, register-specific style, individualization vs. accommodation)?
   - What is said / done by the individual users and the media in/on WhatsApp messages and chats, in relation to the findings for question 1?
-Subprojects: The project consists of four subprojects:
+Subprojects: The project consisted of four subprojects:
-  * Language(s) of WhatsApp: Verbal Periphrases and Argument Drop
+  * A: Language(s) of WhatsApp: Verbal Periphrases and Argument Drop
-  * Language Design in WhatsApp: Icono/Graphy
+  * B: Language Design in WhatsApp: Icono/Graphy
-  * Individuals in WhatsApp
+  * C: Individuals in WhatsApp
-  * The Cultural Discourses and Social Meanings of Mobile Communication
+  * D: The Cultural Discourses and Social Meanings of Mobile Communication
 ===== Subproject A: Language(s) of WhatsApp: Verbal Periphrases and Argument Drop =====
-Two optional salient linguistic structures in French, (Swiss) German, Italian (and partially Romansh) WhatsApp messages will be investigated: argument drop (already investigated in the SMS project), and the use of progressive verbal periphrases, in order to find out whether they are register-specific features (in the sense of Biber 1995) or mainly technologically provoked structures.
+Two optional salient linguistic structures in French, (Swiss) German, Italian (and partially Romansh) WhatsApp messages were investigated: argument drop (already investigated in the SMS project), and the use of progressive verbal periphrases, in order to find out whether these structures are register-specific features (in the sense of Biber 1995) or mainly technologically provoked structures.
   * Lead: Elisabeth Stark (Zurich), Silvia Natale (Bern)
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 ===== Subproject B: Language Design in WhatsApp: Icono/Graphy =====
-This subproject looked at changes in graphic strategies enabled by new correction software, virtual keyboards, and especially new sets of iconographic signs (emojis) across linguistic communities, as well as the specific function of these in shaping communicative identity.
+This subproject looked at varying spelling strategies, and especially new sets of iconographic signs (emojis) across linguistic communities, as well as the specific function of these in shaping communicative identity.
-  * Lead: Christa Dürscheid (Zurich), Federica Diémoz (Neuchâtel)
+  * Lead: Christa Dürscheid (Zurich), Federica Diémoz† (Neuchâtel)
   * Postdocs: Christina Siever, Etienne Morel, Silvia Natale
 ===== Subproject C: Individuals in WhatsApp =====
-This project intensified the focus on individuals by investigating the features analysed in sub-projects A and B plus patterns of code-switching as variables at the level of the individual rather than the sociolinguistically defined group, focusing on Swiss German dialects and patterns of accommodation in interaction.
+This project set its research the focus on individual variation by investigating the features analysed in sub-projects A and B plus patterns of code-switching as variables at the level of the individual rather than the sociolinguistically defined group, focusing on Swiss German dialects and patterns of accommodation in interaction.
   * Lead: Beat Siebenhaar (Leipzig)