Morphological structure can escape reduction effects from mass admixture of L2 speakers: new paper to appear in Studies in Language
Using field data on Sino-Tibetan languages and Bayesian modeling techniques, M. Widmer, M. Jenny, W. Behr and B. Bickel show that, unlike degrees of inflectional synthesis, morphological cohesion patterns escape reduction effects from mass admixture of second language speakers, resulting in striking homogeneity among the languages. The paper is to appear in Studies in Language, a preprint is available at https://psyarxiv.com/sr6xu
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- Two talks in Sweden by Sabine Stoll
- Talk on reusing corpora by Robert Schikowski and Steven Moran
- New publication by Paul Widmer together with Jürg Fleischer and Elisabeth Rieken
- Mathias Jenny to give four talks at CRLAO/EHESS
- Balthasar Bickel to give guest lecture at U Stockholm
- Steven Moran and colleagues publish new online database 'Tsammalex'
- André Müller to give talk at SEALS
- Mathias Jenny to give talk at SEALS
- Balthasar Bickel to give talk at an interdisciplinary workshop on nativism in Edinburgh
- Interdisciplinary Workshop on Vocal Accomodation
- Paul Widmer and Florian Sommer to give a talk at the meeting of the Editing Avestan network in Berlin
- New SNF Grant on the Processing of Ergative Structures
- New publication by Mathias Jenny: "Syntactic diversity and change in Austroasiatic languages"
- Steven Moran presenting with Garland McNew "Visualizing WALS (and other) data"
- Seven members of the department to give talks at conference on linguistic diversity
- Research of the ERC Project ACQDIV on Aboriginal TV in Canada
- New project awarded by the SNF to Michele Loporcaro and Sabine Stoll
- Volker Dellwo on SRF "Kulturplatz Schweiz“
- Bickel to give invited talk at conference on causality in the language sciences
- New publication by Mathias Jenny
- Conference on Indo-European linguistics in Erlangen co-organized by Florian Sommer
- Mathias Jenny is to give a talk as invited speaker at the "Seminar on Language and Dialect Continuum in Myanmar"
- Dagmar Jung and Steve Moran will present a talk on "Documenting typological diversity for real: the need of language acquisition studies"
- Sprachgeschichte, in Schellack gepresst
- ZüKL-Podcast on speech rhythm with Stephan Schmid
- New paper by Stoll and colleagues on syntactic mixing
- New paper by Volker Dellwo and colleagues
- New paper co-authored by Volker Dellwo
- New paper by Volker Dellwo and colleagues
- Volker Dellwo will give a talk on "Can we identify speakers based on their rhythm?"
- Mathias Jenny is to give a talk on "Structural divergence in Burmese varieties"
- Stephan Schmid and Camilla Bernardasci to present at AISV 2015
- 'Voice Äpp' by the UZH Phonetics Lab launched
- New paper co-authored by Paul Widmer on syntactic ambiguity in Middle Welsh
- New paper co-authored by Rik van Gijn on approaches to linguistic areas
- The Handbook of Austroasiatic Languages edited by Mathias Jenny & Paul Sidwell published
- New paper by Salvatore Scarlata and Paul Widmer accepted for publication
- New paper challeinging the universality of referential hierarchies by Balthasar Bickel and colleagues
- New articles by Paul Widmer and Florian Sommer published
- Dr. Dr. Ilya S. Yakubovich to visit the Indo-European Studies
- Balthasar Bickel and Sabine Stoll to visit the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
- Sabine Stoll to give guest lecture at MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
- New paper on reduplication in Yurakaré by Rik van Gijn
- New paper co-authored by Florian Sommer
- New chapter on complexity by Steven Moran and Damián Blasi
- Jeffrey Heath visiting
- New book on phonological typology
- CfP workshop co-organized by Rik van Gijn
- New publication co-authored by Rik van Gijn
- Mathias Jenny, Patrick McCormick & André Müller will give a talk on "Tracing Patterns of Contact and Movement in the Greater Burma Zone"
- Sabine Stoll to present her research at SNF Tour de Suisse
- Research of Sabine Stoll on comparative language acquisition featured in the UZH magazine
- New publication by Rik van Gijn in Morphology
- New paper on the areal development of antipassives as first person object markers in the Himalays accepted for publication
- New paper on areas and universals by Balthasar Bickel accepted for publication
- New handbook chapter on language universals by Balthasar Bickel
- PHOIBLE by Steven Moran et al. released
- Department members to give talks at the IDG conference in Paris
- Workshop on "Partitivity in Romance and beyond" organised by Giorgio Iemmolo funded by SNF
- Department members give talks at the SLE conference in Poznań
- ACQDIV takes off
- Giorgio Iemmolo at SWL6 in Pavia, Italy
- Sabine Stoll appointed professor; starts ERC project
- Elena Lieven is visiting the Psycholinguistics Laboratory
- New publication: "Transitivity and affectedness in Mon" written by Dr. Mathias Jenny
- The paper "Speaker-individuality in Fujisaki model f0 features: implications for forensic voice comparison" was accepted by the International Journal of Speech Language and the Law
- Newar course
- The paper "The influence of speaking rate on Fujisaki model parameters" was accepted by the EURASIP Journal
- Emily Bender visiting
- Paul Widmer and Florian Sommer will give a talk at the Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main
- Mathias Jenny to give plenary talk on Myanmar and Thailand
- Matilde Vida Castro is visiting the Phonetics Laboratory
- Johanna Nichols visiting
- New publication on language evolution
- 8th Days of Swiss Linguistics at UZH
- Paul Sidwell visiting
- Balthasar Bickel to give talk at the MPI for Psycholinguistics
- Department of Comparative Linguistics to celebrate its foundation
- Volker Dellwo and Stephan Schmid at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Madrid)
- Balthasar Bickel invited speaker at a conference on “Linguistic Microareas in South Asia”
- Stephan Schmid gives talk in Spain
- Sabine Stoll’s ERC project featured in the UZH News
- Giorgio Iemmolo invited speaker at the Conference "The diachronic typology of differential case marking"
- Visit by Noun-To-Verb-Ratio (NTVR) project team
- New book on South American languages with three papers by Rik van Gijn
- Special issue of 'Linguistics' edited by Giorgio Iemmolo
- Diana Schackow defended PhD thesis
- Mark Aronoff visiting our institute
- Harald Hammerström visiting our institute
- Robert Forkel visiting our institute
- New book co-edited by Rik van Gijn
- New publication by Leemann, Kolly, Werlen, Britain and Studer-Joho
- Balthasar Bickel to give plenary talk
- Article by Adrian Leemann, Volker Dellwo and Marie-José Kolly to be published in Forensic Science International
- Paper by Leemann, Dellwo, Kolly and Schmid at Speech Prosody 2014
- Paper by Leemann, Kolly and Dellwo at Speech Prosody 2014
- Talks by members of the department in New Delhi, India, February 17-19
- New paper by Roland Litscher published
- New paper by Marie-José Kolly and Volker Dellwo published
- New paper by Balthasar Bickel and colleagues accepted for publication
- Paul Widmer named professor of Comparative Indo-European Studies
- Sabine Stoll receives prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant
- Steven Moran giving talk at Dynamique du language (CRNS)
- Article by Sabine Stoll and Balthasar Bickel published
- Article by Sabine Stoll and Elena Lieven published
- Article by Sabine Stoll and Balthasar Bickel published
- Article by Sabine Stoll and Edith Bavin published
- Article by Mathias Jenny and San San Hnin Tun published
- New book co-edited by Sabine Stoll on acquisition of ergativity
- New book co-edited by Balthasar Bickel released
- Steven Moran giving talk at University of Stockholm
- Article by Giorgio Iemmolo in STUF – Language Typology and Universals
- Prof. Dr. Michele Loporcaro affiliated to General Linguistics
- New book co-edited by Sabine Stoll on acquisition of ergativity
- Kaius Sinnemäki visiting our institute
- Paul Sidwell visiting our institute
- Inter-university meeting on the Akan language
- Giorgio Iemmolo to give invited talk at the University of Leuven
- Robert Schikowski and Balthasar Bickel publish valency dictionary of Chintang
- Philippe Maurer co-publishes Atlas of Pidigin and Creole Languages
- Sabine Stoll to give talk at Freiburg workshop on language documentation
- Sabine Stoll to give guest lecture at University of Basel
- A new linguistic institute
- CfP workshop co-organized by Rik van Gijn on morphological complexity
- Tanja Samardžić and Hanna Ruch moving in
- Mathias Jenny receives a 3-year project grant from SNF
- Article by Bickel, Iemmolo, Zakharko, and Witzlack-Makarevich published
- Article by Steven Moran published
- Peter Trudgill visiting
- Rik van Gijn to give a talk at Meronym conference Mexico City
- Giorgio Iemmolo to give a talk at EACL8 in Paris
- Balthasar Bickel to give talk at 'The Cognitive Revolution 60 Years On'
- Two talks by members of the Department of General Linguistics at the 46th Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Split
- Giorgio Iemmolo and Rik van Gijn co-convenors of workshops at the 46th Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Split
- Steven Moran to present two papers at 2nd Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics in Pisa
- Sabine Stoll to give talk at conference 'From Hand to Mouth' in Zürich
- Balthasar Bickel to give talk at conference 'From Hand to Mouth' in Zürich
- Mathias Jenny to give talk at ICAAL 5 in Canberra
- Steven Moran at the 44th Poznań Linguistic Meeting
- Steven Moran to give talk at CALL in Leiden
- Zwei studentische Assistenzen gesucht
- Balthasar Bickel to give talk at Scientifica 2013
- General Linguistics at Scientifica 2013
- Steven Moran at ACL 2013 in Sofia
- Talks by members of the Department of General Linguistics at ALT10 in Leipzig
- Volker Dellwo, Agnes Kolmer, and Richard Wiese to host workshop at the 19th International Congress of Linguists in Geneva
- Tobias Weber to give talk at the 19th International Congress of Linguists in Geneva
- Sabine Stoll and Chintang Project in UZH News
- Steven Moran at Language Diversity Congress in Groningen
- Talk by Mathias Jenny at Chiangmai University
- Steven Moran and Jelena Prokic giving talk at the LIPP symposium on endangered languages
- New website on distributional typology launched
- Katharina Haude visiting our institute
- Mathias Jenny, Volker Dellwo, and Rachel Weymuth on YouTube
- Talk by Sabine Stoll at conference "Language Documentation"
- Article by Sabine Stoll in supplement of 'Spektrum der Wissenschaft'
- Workshop held by Volker Dellwo, Mathias Jenny, and Rachel Weymuth
- Keynote talk by Balthasar Bickel at conference "Language Documentation"
- Alena Witzlack-Makarevich receives honourable mention
- Workshop on "Landscape through the prism of language"
- Transalpine Typology Meeting
- Giorgio Iemmolo and Robert Schikowski at CASTL in Tromsø
- Taras Zakharko to give talk at ZAS in Berlin
- Three talks by members of the seminar at 23rd SEALS conference in Bankok
- Plenary talk by Mathias Jenny at the 23rd SEALS conference in Bangkok
- Alena Witzlack-Makarevich appointed junior professorship in Kiel
- Talk by Bill Foley
- Talk by Greville Corbett
- Talk by Katharina Haude
- Balthasar Bickel to give two talks at Charles University in Prague
- Sabine Stoll to give two talks at Charles University in Prague
- Taras Zakharko at the workshop on "Current Tendencies and Potentials in Language Documentation" in Campinas, Brazil
- Inventory of linguistic journals now available on the department library's homepage
- Interview with Volker Dellwo published in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
- "Dialäkt Äpp" by Mary-José Kolly and Adrian Leemann released
- Studentische Assistenz gesucht
- Ingrid Hove joins the department
- Giorgio Iemmolo and Alena Witzlack-Makarevich receive GRC for a workshop on landscape and language
- Workshop on Switch Reference organised by Rik van Gijn at next SLE
- Balthasar Bickel on the editorial board of “Journal of Linguistic Geography”
- Steven Moran co-author on a paper being presented at CUNY
- Publication by Steven Moran et al. in 'Language'
- Workshop organised by Giorgio Iemmolo at next SLE
- Steve Moran to present at "Workshop on Quantitative Approaches to Areal Typology"
- Giorgio Iemmolo in Konstanz
- Talk by Paul Sidwell on "The Proto-Austroasiatic lexicon project"
- Talk by Seppo Kittilä on "Evidentiality in Finnish"
- Balthasar Bickel invited speaker at the KNAW Conference "Patterns of Diversification and Contact: a Global Perspective"
- Talk by Frank Zimmerer on "What massive reductions (do not) tell us"
- Mathias Jenny at the workshop on Mainland Southeast Asian Languages in Leipzig
- Steve Moran at the workshop on "Phylomemetic and Phylogenetic Approaches in the Humanities" in Bern
- Talk by Philippe Maurer on Portuguese-based creoles
- Giorgio Iemmolo at the workshop on "Clitics in Old Italian" in Pavia
- Two guest lectures by Nikolaus Himmelmann
- Balthasar Bickel at the workshop on "Phylomemetic and phylogenetic approaches in the humanities" in Bern
- Talk by Balthasar Bickel on linguistic diversity
- Giorgio Iemmolo awarded International Short Visit Grant from the SNF
- Workshop on simulation models for language change
- Steven Moran has joined the department
- Mathias Jenny to present a paper at the International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics
- Mathias Jenny presents a paper on Mon at the Austroasiatic workshop in Singapore
- Adrian Leemann, Volker Dellwo and Marie-José Kolly at Phonetik and Phonology 8 in Jena
- Fernando Zúñiga on Balckfoot in the UZH magazine
- Mathias Jenny to present a paper at Syntax of the World's Lanugages V in Dubrovnik
- Talk by Mathias Jenny on language contact and syntactic change in Zürich
- Keynote talk on diachronic universals of agreement systems by Balthasar Bickel
- Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Giorgio Iemmolo, Taras Zakharko and Balthasar Bickel to present a paper at Syntax of the World's Languages V
- Fernando Zúñiga to present a paper at Syntax of the World's Languages V
- Tobias Weber to present a paper at Syntax of the World's Languages V
- Tobias weber to present a paper on indirect diachronic explanations in typology
- Robert Schikowski to present a paper at Syntax of the World's Languages V
- National Science Foundation grant awarded
- Volker Dellwo, Adrian Leemann and Marie-José Kolly to present paper on speaker identification
- Adrian Leemann and Marie-José Kolly to present paper on the smartphone app "Dialäkt Äpp"
- Marie-José Kolly and Volker Dellwo to present paper on speech rhythm in foreign accents
- Adrian Leemann and Marie-José Kolly to present paper on /l/-vocalization in Swiss German
- Postdoctoral research position
- Sabine Stoll and Balthasar Bickel to present a paper at the workshop "Unpacking intentional communication in animals" in Zürich
- Taras Zakharko and Balthasar Bickel to present a paper at SLE 2012 in Stockholm
- Tobias Weber to present paper at SLE 2012 in Stockholm
- Mathias Jenny to present a paper at the SLE conference in Stockholm
- Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Balthasar Bickel and Fernando Zúñiga at SLE 2012
- Giorgio Iemmolo to present a paper at the SLE Conference in Stockholm
- Giorgio Iemmolo and Robert Schikowski at the EuroBABEL Final Conference
- Fernando Zúñiga appointed chair in linugistics at the University of Bern
- Two new publications by Balthasar Bickel
- Sabine Stoll and Balthasar Bickel publish book chapter on "How to measure frequency?"
- Advanced student for research projected wanted
- Tobias Weber at the 12th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics
- Tobias Weber to present poster on non-canonical A marking
- Balthasar Bickel, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich and Taras Zakharko to present paper on semantic role clustering
- Tobias Weber to present paper at SEALS conference
- Mathias Jenny to present paper at SEALS conference
- Stellenausschreibung
- Balthasar Bickel awarded 3-year grant by the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
- Talk by Miriam Butt at the Linguistisches Projektkolloquium
- Talk by John Payne at the Linguistisches Projektkolloquium
- Paper by Giorgio Iemmolo on differential object marking in Chinese accepted for publication
- Giorgio Iemmolo awarded Postdoc grant
- Talk by Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky at the Linguistisches Projektkolloquium
- Balthasar Bickel, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich and Giorgio Iemmolo at the "Anna Siewierska Memorial Workshop" in Leipzig
- Talk by Johanna Nichols at the Linguistisches Forschungskolloquium
- Six new grants at the department!
- Talk by Sebastian Fedden
- Fernando Zúñiga invited speaker at LMU Munich
- Talk by Stefan Evert
- Talk by Sabine Stoll at the Linguistisches Forschungskolloquium
- Accepted for publication
- Accepted for publication
- Talk by Bruno Cartoni
- Guest lecture by Rik van Gijn
- Talk by Rik van Gijn (Nijmegen)
- Giorgio Iemmolo at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society
- Guest lecture by Balthasar Bickel at LMU Munich
- Tobias Weber at the NEILS 7 conference
- Mathias Jenny at the NEILS 7 conference
- Fernando Zúñiga starts his SNSF Professorship
- Mathias Jenny promoted to Reader (Oberassistent)
- Giorgio Iemmolo defends his PhD thesis
- Sabine Stoll at the CLARIN project meeting in Cologne
- Balthasar Bickel is a discussant at this year's Nijmegen Lectures
- Reform of BA and MA curricula
- Talk by Walter Bisang (University of Mainz)
- Talk by Aris Xanthos
- Talk by Balthasar Bikel on multivariate typology at the Berner Zirkel für Sprachwissenschaft
- Plenarvortrag von Balthasar Bickel an der LDLT3 in London
- Vortrag von Balthasar Bickel an der Universität Genf
- Vortrag von Mathias Jenny bei der Siam Society in Bangkok
- Gastvortrag von Michael Cysouw
- Balthasar Bickel und Sabine Stoll am Workshop "Potentials of Language Documentation" in Leipzig
- Gastaufenthalt von David Denison
- Antrittsvorlesung von Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel
- Gastvortrag von Martin Haspelmath
- Wichtig: Tag der Lehre
- Vortrag von Taras Zakharko über ToolboxSearch am DoBeS Workshop Erfurt
- Vortrag von Mathias Jenny über Sprachkontaktphänomene in Burma
- Fernando Zúñiga Mitherausgeber der "Typological Studies in Language"
- Bibliothekskatalog online abrufbar
- Postdoc in Typologie
- Arbeitsstelle Psycholinguistik
- Stellenausschreibungen
- Neuer Seminarleiter
- Plenary talk at ALS by Sabine Stoll