Appunti per un corpus di sardo multimediale

his paper aims to describe the first version of a Contemporary Sardinian corpus, as well as the results of a preliminary linguistic analysis performed on it. The corpus is a collection of interviews conducted in 2008-2009 with Sardinians living in the Italian peninsula and in some French areas, as a part of the project Mannigos de memòria in limbas dae su disterru (‘Tastes of memory in languages from the diaspora’), aimed at documenting the linguistic, social and anthropological aspects of the Sardinian diaspora. The preliminary data presented in the study include only a part of the material collected and are presented as orthographic transcriptions of audio and video recordings. The article is divided into five paragraphs. The first one is devoted to the description of the project that resulted in the creation of the cor- pus (§ 1). Subsequently, the data collection methods, the features of the informants involved, as well as the theme framework of the interviews are discussed (§ 2). The third section focuses on the transcription and annotation tech- niques used for the creation of the corpus (§ 3). The fourth section illustrates the preliminary results of the data analysis and possible analytical developments of sociolinguistic matrix related to contact phenomena. The fifth paragraph contains concluding remarks, as well as further analytical perspectives related to the corpus implementation.