The project Talsyntax (Syntax of Spoken Swedish), part of a large-scale study of modern Swedish language usage, examined the general characteristics and peculiarities of spoken Swedish. Three important aspects of the study are data collection, methodological results, and empirical results. The data collection effort has produced an archive of representative samples of spoken Swedish, with special attention given to social, regional, and situational variations. Most of the tape-recorded material has been transcribed, grammatically analyzed, and made available to researchers. Important methodological aspects of the study involved computer processing of the data collected, segmentation, and the development of methods for collecting and classifying the material according to nonlinguistic categories such as informant type and situation. The study's empirical results are many, but a general observation is that spoken Swedish is surprisingly homogeneous in the areas studied and more rule-governed than anticipated. (MSE)