08.04.2016
Mathias Jenny to give a talk on "Word order in Austroasiatic - what about verb-initial?" at the Christian Albrechts University, Kiel, on April 14, 2016
Weitere News
15.02.2021
Corpus-based phonetics: new paper by Bickel and colleagues
15.02.2021
Neural signatures of ergativity in speech planning: new paper by department members
17.02.2021
Rigvedische Komposita in der rekursiven Satzverknüpfung: new paper by Scarlata and Widmer
18.01.2021
New paper on linguistic phylogeography
12.01.2021
Balthasar Bickel talk in Jerusalem
04.01.2021
Dagmar Jung to give talk on doing remote fieldwork at the 2021 SSILA meeting
27.11.2020
New paper by Edgar Suter "The Asmat-Muli languages of southwestern New Guinea"
25.11.2020
New paper by Sebastian Sauppe: "Speaking for seeing: Sentence structure guides visual event apprehension"
20.11.2020
New paper by Chundra Cathcart
"Disentangling dialects: a neural approach to Indo-Aryan historical phonology and subgrouping"
12.11.2020
New paper on historical German-Lithuanian language contact by Florian Sommer
02.11.2020
Chundra Cathcart, Andi Hölzl, Paul Widmer, Gerhard Jäger and Balthasar Bickel published the latest results from an SNSF project on Indo-Iranian noun phrases in Language Dynamics and Change
02.11.2020
Talk by Sabine Stoll on documenting language acquisition
16.10.2020
New paper by Piera Filippi on Emotional Voice Intonation and the Origins of Speech Processing and Word-Meaning Associations
16.10.2020
New Paper by Carmen Saldaña Gascon on learning biases in person-number linearization
05.10.2020
Call combinations in dwarf mongooses: department members combine linguistic and biological expertise in a new paper in Proc B
22.09.2020
Morphological structure can escape reduction effects from mass admixture of L2 speakers: new paper to appear in Studies in Language
09.09.2020
New Paper by Kellen Parker Van Dam
06.09.2020
New paper by Manuel Widmer
06.09.2020
New paper by Kellen Parker Van Dam
27.08.2020
Guanghao You is to present his work on "Processing causatives in first language acquisition A computational approach"
27.08.2020
Talk by Christian Ebert at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea
26.08.2020
Special feature on ‘Celebrating Linguistic Diversity’ in the latest Research*eu magazine presenting ERC research of the ACQDIV project from Sabine Stoll and her group.
18.08.2020
New open access paper from Vanessa Wilson on macaque gaze responses to a virtual monkey
18.08.2020
New paper from Vanessa Wilson on the facial Width-to-Height ratio in chimpanzees and links to age, sex and personality
18.08.2020
Vanessa Wilson gave an invited online talk in Moritz Daum's lab in Zürich's Psychology department
16.07.2020
Vanessa Wilson gave a talk at the annual NeuZü Meeting in Neuchatel
18.08.2020
Beta version of the Zurich online edition of the Atharvaveda Paippalāda online
15.07.2020
Andreas Hölzl to give an invited talk in Prague
10.07.2020
Arrate Isasi-Isasmendi gave talk at “Linguistic Consequences of Language Contact” Workshop
10.07.2020
Talk by Carmen Saldana on August 1st 9.20h EST at this year’s 42nd Annual Virtual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, within the session called “Comparative and Cultural Cognition”.
Title: "Rational After All: Changes in Probability Matching Behaviour Across Time in Humans and Monkeys".
09.07.2020
Andreas Hölzl to give invited talk in Szeged
06.07.2020
"In search of isoglosses: continuous and discrete language embeddings in Slavic historical phonology" by Chundra Cathcart and Florian Wandl
26.06.2020
«NFS Evolving Language: ein nationaler Forschungsschwerpunkt zur Sprache» auf dem Blog der SAGW
26.06.2020
A bias towards category clustering: new Language paper by Mansfield, Stoll & Bickel
25.06.2020
«Reading Minds», Artikel über Balthasar Bickel im UZH Magazin 1/20
25.06.2020
«Die Gedanken wären dann nicht mehr frei», SRF 1 Echo der Zeit Podcast mit Balthasar Bickel
25.06.2020
«Können Computer bald unsere Gedanken lesen?» Tagesanzeiger Interview mit Balthasar Bickel und Anne-Lise Giraud zum NCCR Evolving Language
25.06.2020
«Gefährlich wie die Atombombe», Weltwoche Interview mit Balthasar Bickel und Anne-Lise Giraud zum NCCR Evolving Language
18.05.2020
New publication by Anna Jancso, Steven Moran, and Sabine Stoll on the ACQDIV Corpus Database.
05.05.2020
New paper from Mael Leroux and Simon Townsend on call combinations in great apes and the evolutionary origins of syntax
04.05.2020
Dagmar Jung receives 4-year grant to continue work with Dene
16.04.2020
Austroasiatic syntax in areal and diachronic perspective
01.04.2020
Interview with Balthasar Bickel on the NCCR Evolving Language
31.03.2020
First treebank of Vedic Sanskrit released
19.02.2020
Kellen van Dam gave talk at NEILS
10.02.2020
New publication by Steven Moran
29.01.2020
New publications by Yoko Yamazaki
22.01.2020
New publications by Natalia Chousou-Polydouri
28.12.2019
New publication by Steven Moran and Christian Chiarcos
20.12.2019
Merry Christmas!
18.12.2019
New publication by Florian Sommer
17.12.2019
New publication by Natalia Chousou-Polydouri
16.12.2019
NCCR "Evolving Language" approved
11.12.2019
TV report on Blasi et al. (2019)
11.12.2019
New publication by Andreas Hölzl
29.11.2019
Andreas Hölzl gave invited talk at Freie Universität Berlin
27.11.2019
New publication by IVS members Stefan Dedio and Paul Widmer in collaboration with Peter Ranacher in Language:
Evidence for Britain and Ireland as a linguistic area
26.11.2019
Balthasar Bickel to give lecture and teach workshop at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima
13.11.2019
Yoko Yamazaki to give talk in Stockholm
13.11.2019
Steven Moran elected to board of eLinguistics Foundation
13.11.2019
New publication by Sascha Völlmin
13.11.2019
Svenja Bonmann gave talk in Cologne
06.11.2019
Sabine Stoll to give talks at Harvard and MIT
06.11.2019
Department members @ BUCLD, Boston
15.10.2019
Department member TP Dr. Carlotta Viti appointed full professor for Ancient Languages and Cultures at Beijing Normal University (Zhuhai Campus)!
14.10.2019
New co-authored publication by Dagmar Jung
01.10.2019
Florian Sommer gave a talk in Birštonas
01.10.2019
IVS at UZH Agreement Conference
19.09.2019
Welcome to Dr. Sakine Çabuk at IVS
10.12.2019
Andreas Hölzl to give invited talk at University of Munich
10.09.2019
New research from IVS members Sabrina Engesser and Simon Townsend, published in PNAS, sheds light on the building blocks of bird vocalisations
10.09.2019
Yoko Yamazaki to give talk at conference "Issues in Baltic Linguistics"
05.09.2019
Florian Sommer teaching at JeSSIE
03.09.2019
Mathias Jenny, Hiram Ring, Wei-Wei Lee and other members of the V1 project team are giving talks at the 8th ICAAL in Chiang Mai, August 29-31, 2019
02.09.2019
Bickel and Stoll to teach courses at Autumn School
02.09.2019
Welcome to new department members!
01.09.2019
IVS members at ALT 2019 (Pavia)
01.09.2019
IVS members at SLE 2019 (Leipzig)
16.08.2019
Article on Sabine Stoll’s research on comparative language development in Schweizer Familie
08.08.2019
Damián Blasi teaches a course in "Quantitative Typology" at a Winter School organized by the Department of Linguistics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
08.08.2019
You & Mažara to present @ ICLC / Nishinomiya
06.08.2019
IVS @ Association for Computation Linguistics Conference!
08.08.2019
Jekaterina Mažara presented @ CogSci / Montreal
08.08.2019
New Publication by Jekaterina Mažara and Sabine Stoll
10.07.2019
New publication on speech planning in dialogue by Sebastian Sauppe
10.07.2019
IVS at ICHL 24 in Canberra
26.06.2019
Bickel gave a keynote on morphological dependencies at Surrey
21.06.2019
Keynote by Sabrina Engesser at the University of Tokyo
21.06.2019
New publications by Mathias Jenny
06.06.2019
Stefan Dedio, Paul Widmer and Peter Ranacher (Geography Department UZH) developed a method for quantifying area formation processes.
21.06.2019
Keynote by Sabrina Engesser at ENS Paris
30.05.2019
IG-Arbeitstagung Ljubljana: Talks by Florian Sommer and Yoko Yamazaki
17.05.2019
Hiram Ring, Mathias Jenny, Wei-Wei Lee and Rachel Weymuth to present at SEALS
06.05.2019
Sonja Schnabel successfully defended her PhD
08.05.2019
Chundra Cathcart to give talk at Bayes@Lund
06.05.2019
New publication by Steven Moran
30.04.2019
Johanna Nichols to give talk at UZH on 24 April 2019, 14.00h
24.04.2019
Manuel Widmer to give talk in Vienna
15.04.2019
Mathias Jenny to teach workshop at the Yangon University of Foreign Languages
28.03.2019
Wei-Wei Lee and Rachel Weymuth gave talk in Helsinki
01.04.2019
Steven Moran to give co-authored presentation in Helsinki
25.03.2019
Newly advertised research positions at the Department of Comparative Linguistics
19.03.2019
An article by Nick Lester entitled,
"That's hard: Relativizer use in spontaneous L2 speech"
was just published in the International Journal of Learner Corpus Research.
15.03.2019
Publication in Science by author team including Damián Blasi, Steven Moran, Paul Widmer, and Balthasar Bickel
14.03.2019
Steven Moran and Daniel McCloy (eds.) publish PHOIBLE 2.0 database (phoible.org)
13.03.2019
Mathias Jenny, Hiram Ring, and André Müller to give talks at the AAS, Denver
13.03.2019
Co-authored publication by Chundra Cathcart selected for inclusion in "The Best of Language: Volume III"
13.03.2019
New volume on grammatical relations by Bickel and Witzlack-Makarevich
11.03.2019
Bickel joins editorial board of the Journal of Linguistics
07.03.2019
Nick Lester invited to teach courses at summer school
18.02.2019
Manuel Widmer gave invited talk in Tübingen
30.01.2019
Mathias Jenny to give two invited talks at the University of Yangon
29.01.2019
Department features at 32nd CUNY Human Sentence Processing conference with three posters
09.01.2019
Dagmar Jung presented her paper 'How to negate in Dene Suline' at SSILA/LSA
20.12.2018
New paper by Florian Sommer on the morphology of definiteness marking in Baltic (open access)
14.12.2018
Francesco Gardani to give talk at the 29th Congrès international de linguistique et philologie romanes in Copenhagen
14.12.2018
Francesco Gardani to give talk at ICHL24 in Canberra
12.12.2018
Florian Sommer defended PhD thesis
04.12.2018
Manuel Widmer to give presentation in Brussels
04.12.2018
Paul Widmer published paper on Tocharian
29.11.2018
Rik van Gijn receives ERC Consolidator grant
29.11.2018
The SNSF awards a 4-year SINERGIA grant “Out of Asia: Linguistic
Diversity and Population History” to a consortium of GIScientists,
geneticists and linguists, including IVS members Paul Widmer and
Balthasar Bickel. The project will start next year.
28.11.2018
The Department of Comparative Linguistics, University of Zurich, has signed an MoU with the Department of Linguistics, Yangon University of Foreign Languages, Myanmar.
14.11.2018
Master's program Evolutionary Linguistics approved by the Executive Board of the University of Zürich
12.11.2018
Steven Moran and Antonio Benítez-Burraco publish free Ebook "The Adaptive Value of Languages: Non-Linguistic Causes of Language Diversity"
05.11.2018
Steven Moran and Sabine Stoll presented their paper 'Variation sets in maximally diverse languages' at BUCLD
02.11.2018
Sabine Stoll gave talk at Neuroscience Center (U Geneva) on 'Language acquisition in maximally diverse languages'
30.10.2018
New paper: "Sanskrit Word Segmentation Using Character-level Recurrent and
Convolutional Neural Networks".
Authors: Oliver Hellwig and Sebastian Nehrdich (Hamburg)
25.10.2018
Manuel Widmer to give talk in Pavia
16.10.2018
New paper from Stuart Watson and Simon Townsend on the information content of wolf howls
08.10.2018
Michele Loporcaro, Francesco Gardani, and Alberto Giudici to give talk at Going Romance in Utrecht
04.10.2018
New paper by Francesco Gardani in Language and Linguistics Compass
02.10.2018
New SNSF grant on ergativity
02.10.2018
Francesco Gardani was elected member of the Executive Committee of the Societas Linguistica Europaea
25.09.2018
Damián Blasi taught a course on data science at NTNU
25.09.2018
Steven Moran and colleague published editorial "The Adaptive Value of Languages: Non-Linguistic Causes of Language Diversity" as part of their edited volume in Frontiers in Psychology
24.09.2018
New publications by Andreas Hölzl 2018
24.09.2018
Andreas Hölzl and colleague organized workshop on Tungusic language family at SLE51
18.09.2018
Pied babbler paper makes Editor’s Choice in Behavioral Ecology
17.09.2018
Sabine Stoll to give two talks at WEF Meeting of New Champions in Tianjin, China
13.09.2018
Paul Widmer gives talk at workshop in Lausanne co-organized by groups from the Sorbonne, UMR Orient & Mediterranée, U Lausanne, and IVS
03.09.2018
Steven Moran and colleagues organized workshop at SLE51
03.09.2018
Steven Moran, Sebastian Sauppe, Nicholas Lester and Sabine Stoll presented at SLE51
28.08.2018
Fieldwork activities and workshops at YUFL in connection with Mathias Jenny's project on Burmese TV
23.08.2018
New paper on the drivers of linguistic diversity in Proc Roy Soc B by Bickel and colleagues
22.08.2018
New paper on the evolution of syntax by department members in PLoS Biology
13.08.2018
Mathias Jenny giving talk at the 13th International Burma Studies Conference in Bangkok
23.07.2018
Bickel gives keynote at a conference on «Morphosyntactic Misfits»
13.07.2018
Steven Moran interviewed for the Language Science Press blog
03.07.2018
Steven Moran and Michael Cysouw have published open source book "The Unicode Cookbook for linguists: Managing writing systems using orthography profiles"
29.06.2018
New paper on 'Meaning-refining acoustic variation in pied babbler recruitment cries' by Sabrina Engesser, Simon Townsend, et al.
29.06.2018
Bickel to give a plenary at the conference “Typology and Universals in Word Formation IV”
22.06.2018
Mathias Jenny, Hiram Ring and Wei-Wei Lee to teach "Basics of field methods" at Yangon University of Foreign Languages and University of Mandalay (Myanmar)
18.06.2018
The Swiss Paippalāda Project to hold workshop in Zurich on 21/22 June 2018
18.06.2018
Chundra Cathcart to present paper at 34th South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable, June 21, in Konstanz, Germany
30.05.2018
Thomas Zehnder hält einen Gastvortrag auf der Indologie der Uni Tübingen
22.05.2018
Hiram Ring and Mathias Jenny gave a talk titled "Toward reconstruction of Austroasiatic syntax" at the 28th SEALS conference in Kaohsiung, Taiwan on May 17, 2018
15.05.2018
Nouns slow down speech: newly discovered universal of language processing published by Bickel and colleagues in PNAS
07.05.2018
Steven Moran to present three co-authored papers at 11th Edition of Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) in Miyazaki, Japan
04.05.2018
Francesco Gardani to deliver plenary talk at the 13th Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax-Morphology Meeting
04.05.2018
Francesco Gardani gave a talk on “Verb aspect borrowing in Istro-Romanian” at Stony Brook University
02.05.2018
The following papers by Chundra Cathcart appeared:
13.04.2018
Several department members to present at 12th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EVOLANG) in Torun, Poland
13.04.2018
Florian Sommer and Paul Widmer give keynote at "A corpus and
usage-based approach to Ancient Greek: from the Archaic period until the
Koiné"
06.04.2018
Sabine Stoll talks about Citizen Science in Linguistics
20.03.2018
Thematic issue edited by Katarzyna Janic et al. published
12.03.2018
Manuel Widmer interviewed by SRF on occasion of the International Mother Language Day
14.02.2018
Mathias Jenny to give invited talk Yangon University of Foreign Languages (YUFL)
08.02.2018
New project and two new colleagues at the IVS
08.02.2018
New publication co-authored by Paul Widmer on clause linkage in Middle Welsh
06.02.2018
Mathias Jenny organizes panel on "Changing Environments: Language and Society in Myanmar"
11.12.2017
New publication by Stefan Dedio and Paul Widmer on Old and Middle Irish
06.12.2017
Bickel, Stoll and Gardani lecturing at COEDL
06.12.2017
Bickel to give plenary at ALS Anniversary Conference
06.12.2017
Talks by department members at ALS
06.12.2017
Several talks by IVS members at ALT
06.12.2017
Mathias Jenny to give talk on "Verb initial structures as an archaic feature of Austroasiatic" at the ALT conference
20.11.2017
Mathias Jenny to give talk titled "In search of Austroasiatic - word order and clause structure" at University of Potsdam
17.11.2017
Sebastian Sauppe and Rik van Gijn receive funding for pilot project
06.11.2017
New publication by Paul Widmer on Tocharian
04.10.2017
National Geographic Explorer grant awarded to Sebastian Sauppe
04.10.2017
New paper by Sebastian Sauppe on German sentence production
04.10.2017
New research project sponsored by SNSF
27.09.2017
New book by Manuel Widmer
20.09.2017
DAI workshop to take place on 9 October 2017
19.09.2017
Vorträge von Mitgliedern des IVS auf dem "33. Deutschen Orientalistentag, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena"
04.09.2017
Stefan Dedio, Francesco Gardani, Peter Ranacher, Paul Widmer gave two talks at the workshop "New Approaches to Brittonic historical Linguistics"
04.09.2017
5'000 books into the NEBIS catalog until 31st August 2017
22.08.2017
“Borrowed Morphology”, edited by Francesco Gardani, Peter Arkadiev & Nino Amiridze, goes paperback
14.08.2017
Damián Blasi gave an invited talk at "Statistics of language: therories and experiments"
11.08.2017
New publication by Francesco Gardani
31.07.2017
Stefan Dedio, Manuel Widmer and Paul Widmer to give talks at the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics in San Antonio, Texas
31.07.2017
New publication by Manuel Widmer & Marius Zemp
25.07.2017
New paper from Simon Townsend on the dwarf mongoose alarm call system
25.07.2017
New paper from Sabrina Engesser and Simon Townsend on pied babbler call combinations
26.06.2017
Balthasar Bickel to give talk on the scope of evolutionary biases in language
22.06.2017
Charlotte Schweri defended PhD thesis
21.06.2017
New publication by Mathias Jenny
14.06.2017
Bickel to give a talk at an MPI Nijmegen workshop on new questions and methods in linguistics.
12.06.2017
Mathias Jenny to teach introductory courses in linguistics as visiting lecturer at the University of Mawlamyine, Myanmar.
12.06.2017
Talk by Bob Ladd and Stephan Schmid at PaPE
09.06.2017
Talks by Alys Boote Cooper and André Müller at the Chulalongkorn International Student Symposium on Southeast Asian Linguistics
08.06.2017
Mathias Jenny, Alys Boote Cooper & Paul Widmer gave talk at conference "Contact-driven multilingual practices"
07.06.2017
Talk by Stephan Schmid at ICLaVE 9
29.05.2017
AUTOTYP database released!
29.05.2017
Steven Moran gave a talk at the 25th Manchester Phonology Meeting
10.05.2017
Talk by Florian Sommer in Halle
10.05.2017
Stephan Schmid co-author of new paper on speech perception
10.05.2017
Damián Blasi gave invited talk at ENS
09.05.2017
New professor at the department: Welcome to Simon Townsend!
09.05.2017
New publication by Bickel on linguistic areas and universals
09.05.2017
Bickel and Derungs at Monte Verità Conference on Spatial Boundaries and Transitions
09.05.2017
Keynote by Damián Blasi at Paris-Sorbonne
09.05.2017
Florian Sommer giving invited talk in Bern
02.05.2017
IDG new paper
13.04.2017
Am 20. und 21. April halten mehrere Mitglieder des IVS Vorträge
auf dem 3. Indogermanistischen Forschungskolloquium in Wien
03.04.2017
Library network 'Bibliotheksverbund Platte' launched! Improved opening hours (Mon-Fri, 9-17) and facilities for students and staff
03.04.2017
Inaugural talk by Mathias Jenny on "Southeast Asian linguistic landscapes - unity in diversity", April 3, 2017, 18:15.
30.03.2017
New publication by Paul Widmer on argument selection and the
morphosyntax of the Breton and Brittonic verbal complex
30.03.2017
Stefan Dedio, Paul Widmer to present workshop paper at 23rd International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (Thessaloniki)
29.03.2017
Phonetic variation in contemporary Spanish
28.03.2017
An article with the title "How Society Shapes Language: Personal Pronouns in the Greater Burma Zone" by André Müller and Rachel Weymuth has recently been published in "Asiatische Studien - Éudes Asiatiques" (Volume 71, Issue 1).
27.03.2017
Balthasar Bickel to give keynote at Conference on Phylogenetics Methods
27.03.2017
Language and Migration
03.03.2017
Balthasar Bickel in the UZH Magazin
01.03.2017
Rik van Gijn gives inaugural lecture
01.03.2017
PAZ in the Press
The Ticinese newspaper “Giornale del Popolo“ published a full paper report in its weekend issue of the 25th of February on the latest publication of the Phonogram Archives
15.02.2017
Mathias Jenny, Volker Dellwo, Paul Widmer to present their research at
Mandalay University, Myanmar
10.02.2017
Workshop „Linguistic diversity meets the brain“ to be held at IVS, 15-17 May 2017
07.02.2017
Recursion in language evolution: new paper by IVS team accepted by "Language”
24.01.2017
Stephan Schmid to present at AISV in Pisa
23.01.2017
Upcoming workshop on diachronic morphology (DIAMOR) organized by IVS members
13.01.2017
Michele Loporcaro and Francesco Gardani editors-in-chief of the new Oxford encyclopedia of Romance linguistics
20.12.2016
Sebastian Sauppe published a paper on the timing of turn-taking in dialogue
20.12.2016
SLE accepts all 5 workshops proposed by IVS departent members
08.12.2016
Damián Blasi gives invited talk at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt, Germany
22.11.2016
Bickel, Moran and Blasi give talks at workshop on genetics and animal vocal communication / human language
11.11.2016
Damian Blasi held an invited talk at TedLab at MIT
11.11.2016
Damian Blasi held a Plenary talk at the Colloquium "The Grammar of Body Parts" at the PUCP in Lima, Perú
11.11.2016
Damian Blasi held a course on Phylogenetic Methods at the PUCP in Lima, Perú
02.11.2016
New edited volume on switch reference by Rik van Gijn and Jeremy Hammond
02.11.2016
Paper by Damian Blasi et al is reported on in Nature
02.11.2016
New department member: Yingqi Jing
02.11.2016
Camilla Bernardasci and Stephan Schmid publish two new research articles
in Studi AISV.
27.10.2016
New publication by the Greater Burma Zone team:
12.10.2016
Phoneticians in Munich
05.10.2016
On 27 October 2016, Camilla Bernardasci presents the new publication of the Phonogram Archives: "Stòri, stralüsc e stremizzi. Registrazioni dialettali nella Svizzera italiana“
29.09.2016
4 new SNSF grants (100% success rate!) at IVS
20.09.2016
Three new department members: Katarzyna Janic, Tim Aufderheide, and Urban Zihlmann
20.09.2016
Balthasar Bickel and Taras Zakharko present new design principle for typological databases at PLM 2016
19.09.2016
Damián Blasi and colleagues published a paper in PNAS: "Sound–meaning association biases evidenced across thousands of languages".
13.09.2016
Florian Sommer and Paul Widmer to give presentations at the conference
“Back to the Root - The Structure, Function, and Semantics of the PIE
Root” (15. Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft) in Vienna.
08.09.2016
Balthasar Bickel to give invited talk at Europen Summer School Workshop on Optional and Differential Case Marking
08.09.2016
Lithuanian-Swiss cooperation programme workshop in Zurich
08.09.2016
New encyclopedia entry on linguistic areas by Rik van Gijn and Pieter
Muysken
07.09.2016
Patrick McCormick held a talk on September 5th 2016 at the University of Chiang Mai
07.09.2016
Mathias Jenny and Paul Widmer to present papers at ICAAL workshop
"Austroasiatic Syntax in Areal and Diachronic Perspective" in Chiang
Mai.
05.09.2016
IVS members teaching at Porquerolles
01.09.2016
Stoll and Bickel contribute to a paper on intentionality in animal communication
30.08.2016
Dieter Studer-Joho and Adrian Leeman dialect experts on sf1 Einstein (25.08.16)
26.08.2016
Big show of the department at SLE 2016
23.08.2016
New paper on the role of prosody and word length in Middle Breton
versification by Paul Widmer
23.08.2016
Steve Moran gives talk "Quantitative Analysis of Dogon" at the Mini African Symposium at MPI for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany.
18.08.2016
Just out! The brand new Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages
19.07.2016
Damián Blasi co-authored a paper on a large cultural, linguistic and ecological database D-Place
19.07.2016
Romance linguists in Rome: Camilla Bernardasci, Stefano Negrinelli, Diego Pescarini, Serena Romagnoli and Stephan Schmid to present at
19.07.2016
Damián Blasi co-authored a paper on a large cultural, linguistic and ecological database D-Place
13.07.2016
Mathias Jenny is teaching a course on "Introduction to linguistics and linguistic fieldwork for anthropologists" at the Mandalay University, Myanmar, August 1-12, 2016.
13.07.2016
Mathias Jenny and Paul Sidwell, in cooperation with the Myanmar Center, Chiang Mai University, are organizing a workshop on "Austroasiatic syntax in areal and diachronic perspective" at Chiang Mai University, Thailand, September 5-7, 2016.
05.07.2016
Balthasar Bickel elected President of the Linguistic Society of Switzerland and member of the Academia Europaea
29.06.2016
Several members of the IVS are giving talks at the 9th Days of Swiss Linguistics in Geneva on June 29 to July 1, 2016
23.06.2016
André Müller to give a talk titled "Mehrsprachigkeit bei den Kachin: wer spricht eigentlich was?"
21.06.2016
Mathias Jenny to give a talk titled "Sprachkontakt in Myanmar - die Rolle peripherer Sprachen und Völker"
21.06.2016
Balthasar Bickel to give a guest lecture in Mainz
15.06.2016
New paper by Karnthida Kerdpol
09.06.2016
Damián Blasi to give talk "What quantitative methods can do for the study of cross-linguistic patterns" at U Leipzig on 22 June 2016.
09.06.2016
New paper by Bickel & Zúñiga in press on what a 'word' might be (or not!) in polysynthetic languages.
25.05.2016
Per Baumann defended PhD thesis
24.05.2016
Steven Moran and colleagues to present the paper, "The Open Linguistics Working Group: Developing the Linguistic Linked Open Data Cloud", at the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2016)
24.05.2016
Steven Moran, Robert Schikowski, Danica Pajović, Cazim Hysi and Sabine Stoll to present the paper "The ACQDIV Database: Min(d)ing the Ambient Language" at the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2016)
20.05.2016
Stephan Schmid gives lecture on Swiss-German Ethnolects at Université de Fribourg, 20.05.2016
19.05.2016
New publication on Hittite by Paul Widmer and Florian Sommer
19.05.2016
Marie-José Kolly presented a poster on intercoder reliability at r-atics 5
18.05.2016
Mathias Jenny and Patrick McCormick to give talks on "Verb-initial word order in Austroasiatic" and "Mainland Southeast Asia as a linguistic area" at the 26th SEALS conference in Manila
17.05.2016
Introduction to Old Prussian
13.05.2016
Stephan Schmid invited participant in workshop on the Spanish-speaking community in Switzerland at the University of Lausanne
20.04.2016
Sabine Stoll to give a talk on April 20 at the Institute of Neuroinformatics (UZH) on 'Universal principles in language acquisition: a new crosslinguistic approach’.
13.04.2016
Stephan Schmid invited participant at workshop on „Dialect Acquisition and Migration“ in Oslo
08.04.2016
Paul Widmer, Michiel de Vaan and Florian Sommer gave talks at the workshop "Historical and typological approaches to Baltic morphosyntax" in Vilnius.
08.04.2016
Paul Widmer co-authors a talk by Erich Poppe: “Middle Welsh Verbal Nouns and their Constructions. Some Variables for Classification”
08.04.2016
New paper on hierarchical agreement and co-argument sensitivity by Bickel and colleagues
30.03.2016
Patrick McCormick to give three talks in Seattle, WA (USA)
30.03.2016
Manuel Widmer to give a talk at the workshop "The development of argument-marking systems" in Nijmegen, March 31 – April 1
23.03.2016
New publication co-authored by Paul Widmer and Jürg Fleischer (Marburg)
on gender, agreement, and agreement morphology in Old and Modern Frisian
18.03.2016
New D-A-CH grant on the Typology of Vowel and Consonant Quantity in Southern German varieties
17.03.2016
Damián Blasi to give talk at Santa Fe Institute
16.03.2016
Manuel Widmer to give a talk at the Symposium on evidentiality, egophoricity and engagement in Stockholm
14.03.2016
Presentation at EVOLANG on animal syntax
14.03.2016
Marie-José Kolly successfully defended her PhD thesis on „The influence of speaker origin and individuality on rhythmic features of non-native speech“
09.03.2016
Mathias Jenny, Patrick McCormick, André Müller and Rachel Weymuth to give talks in panel "Rethinking the relationship between language and identity in Burma and beyond" (convenor: Patrick McCormick)
04.03.2016
Michele Loporcaro and Stephan Schmid invited speakers at workshop on sound change in Salamanca
01.03.2016
New publication by Mathias Jenny and San San Hnin Tun
29.02.2016
Linguistics and Genetics Workshop in March
29.02.2016
Commentary published in the Journal of Language Evolution by Steven Moran
29.02.2016
New paper by Damián Blasi and colleagues in the Journal of Language Evolution
17.02.2016
New article by Jekaterina Mazara & Sabine Stoll
12.02.2016
Two new projects launched: Processing of Ergativity and Morphology in Time and Space
12.02.2016
New department members: Sebastian Sauppe, Michèle Kolačková and Stefan Dedio
11.02.2016
Successful habilitation by Mathias Jenny
09.02.2016
New paper by Stephan Schmid on the borrowability of bound morphemes in language contact
02.02.2016
New paper by Bickel and colleagues on hierarchical alignment
27.01.2016
Stephan Schmid to give presentation on "VOT in L2 German“
21.01.2016
Stephan Schmid to give presentation on „Differenzierungsprozesse im Sprachgebrauch von Jugendlichen in der Deutschschweiz“ at the Colloque VALS-ASLA 2016 in Geneva
13.01.2016
Successful habilitation by Rik Van Gijn
06.01.2016
New publication by Leemann, Kolly, Purves, Britain, and Glaser on using smartphone apps for crowdsourcing language change
16.12.2015
New paper by Balthasar Bickel on large and ancient linguistic areas
03.12.2015
Phonogram Archives on the Radio
24.11.2015
Guest: Penny Brown
24.11.2015
Guests: Shanley Allen and Mary Elliott
23.11.2015
Special issue of Linguistic Discovery and two papers by Rik van Gijn
20.11.2015
Florian Sommer and Paul Widmer are granted funds by the Lietuvos Mokslo Taryba (Lithuanian Research Council)
12.11.2015
Daniel Friedrichs to give invited talks at University of Cambridge and UCL Speech Science Forum
12.11.2015
Damiàn Blasi gave talk in Cambridge at the Department of Phonetics
12.11.2015
Publication by Adrian Leemann and Marie-José Kolly on the effect of dialect imitation on speech rhythm
12.11.2015
New book edited by Adrian Leemann, Marie-José Kolly, Stephan Schmid & Volker Dellwo
06.11.2015
Patrick McCormick to give talk on “A Mon past for a modern nation: writing a minority history into and out of Burma" at St Anthony's College and SOAS
05.11.2015
Mathias Jenny receives ETH Global seed money for cooperation in research and teaching with Mandalay University (Myanmar)
26.10.2015
Florian Sommer and Paul Widmer to give presentations at the 12th International Congress of Balticists in Vilnius
23.10.2015
Balthasar Bickel to give keynote talk at conference on phylogenetic algorithms in linguistics
21.10.2015
27.10.2015 UNESCO World Day of Audiovisual Heritage: "Geschichten aus dem Dorfleben von Diepoldsau"
13.10.2015
Programme workshop Inheritance Hierarchies in Morphology online
13.10.2015
New publication by Rik van Gijn and colleagues on subordination strategies in Tupian languages
08.10.2015
Sandra Auderset and Manuel Widmer at Transalpine Typology Meeting in Lyon
21.09.2015
Damián Blasi, Steven Moran, and Sabine Stoll present at CRNS in Lyon
15.09.2015
Paul Widmer to give keynote at Arbeitstagung "100 Jahre Entzifferung des Hethitischen"
15.09.2015
Florian Sommer to present paper at European Conference of Iranian Studies
07.09.2015
New publication on Chintang by Robert Schikowski, Netra P. Paudyal, and Balthasar Bickel
04.09.2015
IVS at Scientifica
02.09.2015
New (temporary) help in our administration
02.09.2015
Damian Blasi, Manuel Widmer, Piar Karim, and Jekaterina Mažara to join our scientific staff
02.09.2015
5 talks by department members at SLE 2015
24.08.2015
Bickel and colleages to give talk on orangutan communication
19.08.2015
Balthasar Bickel to give plenary at Sino-Tibetan conference
13.08.2015
New paper by Bickel and colleages on how the brain shapes grammar
10.08.2015
10-14 August 2015: Phoneticians in Glasgow
10.08.2015
Workshop on inheritance hierarchies in morphology
20.07.2015
André Müller and Rachel Weymuth to give a talk
18.07.2015
Mathias Jenny to give a talk 6th International Conference on Austroasiatic Languages
18.07.2015
Mathias Jenny to give a talk at International Conference on Burma/Myanmar Studies
14.07.2015
New paper by Daniel Friedrichs and colleagues
02.07.2015
New paper on evolutionary trends in agreement system by Balthasar Bickel and colleagues
02.07.2015
New publication by Rik van Gijn
29.06.2015
New publication by Rik van Gijn
16.06.2015
ACQDIV kickoff workshop a success
10.06.2015
Edisyn VIII co-organized by Florian Sommer and Dieter Studer-Joho
10.06.2015
New publication by Paul Widmer
04.06.2015
Two talks in Sweden by Sabine Stoll
04.06.2015
Talk on reusing corpora by Robert Schikowski and Steven Moran
01.06.2015
New publication by Paul Widmer together with Jürg Fleischer and Elisabeth Rieken
01.06.2015
Mathias Jenny to give four talks at CRLAO/EHESS
28.05.2015
Balthasar Bickel to give guest lecture at U Stockholm
26.05.2015
Steven Moran and colleagues publish new online database 'Tsammalex'
24.05.2015
André Müller to give talk at SEALS
22.05.2015
Mathias Jenny to give talk at SEALS
19.05.2015
Balthasar Bickel to give talk at an interdisciplinary workshop on nativism in Edinburgh
19.05.2015
Interdisciplinary Workshop on Vocal Accomodation
18.05.2015
Paul Widmer and Florian Sommer to give a talk at the meeting of the Editing Avestan network in Berlin
05.05.2015
New SNF Grant on the Processing of Ergative Structures
04.05.2015
New publication by Mathias Jenny: "Syntactic diversity and change in Austroasiatic languages"
04.05.2015
Steven Moran presenting with Garland McNew "Visualizing WALS (and other) data"
29.04.2015
Seven members of the department to give talks at conference on linguistic diversity
28.04.2015
Research of the ERC Project ACQDIV on Aboriginal TV in Canada
28.04.2015
New project awarded by the SNF to Michele Loporcaro and Sabine Stoll
27.04.2015
Volker Dellwo on SRF "Kulturplatz Schweiz“
13.04.2015
Bickel to give invited talk at conference on causality in the language sciences
01.04.2015
New publication by Mathias Jenny
24.03.2015
Conference on Indo-European linguistics in Erlangen co-organized by Florian Sommer
18.03.2015
Mathias Jenny is to give a talk as invited speaker at the "Seminar on Language and Dialect Continuum in Myanmar"
17.03.2015
Dagmar Jung and Steve Moran will present a talk on "Documenting typological diversity for real: the need of language acquisition studies"
23.02.2015
Sprachgeschichte, in Schellack gepresst
23.02.2015
ZüKL-Podcast on speech rhythm with Stephan Schmid
30.01.2015
New paper by Stoll and colleagues on syntactic mixing
29.01.2015
New paper by Volker Dellwo and colleagues
29.01.2015
New paper co-authored by Volker Dellwo
29.01.2015
New paper by Volker Dellwo and colleagues
29.01.2015
Volker Dellwo will give a talk on "Can we identify speakers based on their rhythm?"
28.01.2015
Mathias Jenny is to give a talk on "Structural divergence in Burmese varieties"
20.01.2015
Stephan Schmid and Camilla Bernardasci to present at AISV 2015
06.01.2015
'Voice Äpp' by the UZH Phonetics Lab launched
17.12.2014
New paper co-authored by Paul Widmer on syntactic ambiguity in Middle Welsh
15.12.2014
New paper co-authored by Rik van Gijn on approaches to linguistic areas
09.12.2014
The Handbook of Austroasiatic Languages edited by Mathias Jenny & Paul Sidwell published
03.12.2014
New paper by Salvatore Scarlata and Paul Widmer accepted for publication
01.12.2014
New paper challeinging the universality of referential hierarchies by Balthasar Bickel and colleagues
01.12.2014
New articles by Paul Widmer and Florian Sommer published
26.11.2014
Dr. Dr. Ilya S. Yakubovich to visit the Indo-European Studies
24.11.2014
Balthasar Bickel and Sabine Stoll to visit the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
24.11.2014
Sabine Stoll to give guest lecture at MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
24.11.2014
New paper on reduplication in Yurakaré by Rik van Gijn
19.11.2014
New paper co-authored by Florian Sommer
11.11.2014
New chapter on complexity by Steven Moran and Damián Blasi
11.11.2014
Jeffrey Heath visiting
27.10.2014
New book on phonological typology
14.10.2014
CfP workshop co-organized by Rik van Gijn
14.10.2014
New publication co-authored by Rik van Gijn
14.10.2014
Mathias Jenny, Patrick McCormick & André Müller will give a talk on "Tracing Patterns of Contact and Movement in the Greater Burma Zone"
30.09.2014
Sabine Stoll to present her research at SNF Tour de Suisse
30.09.2014
Research of Sabine Stoll on comparative language acquisition featured in the UZH magazine
29.09.2014
New publication by Rik van Gijn in Morphology
29.09.2014
New paper on the areal development of antipassives as first person object markers in the Himalays accepted for publication
29.09.2014
New paper on areas and universals by Balthasar Bickel accepted for publication
19.09.2014
New handbook chapter on language universals by Balthasar Bickel
18.09.2014
PHOIBLE by Steven Moran et al. released
16.09.2014
Department members to give talks at the IDG conference in Paris
15.09.2014
Workshop on "Partitivity in Romance and beyond" organised by Giorgio Iemmolo funded by SNF
10.09.2014
Department members give talks at the SLE conference in Poznań
08.09.2014
ACQDIV takes off
02.09.2014
Giorgio Iemmolo at SWL6 in Pavia, Italy
01.09.2014
Sabine Stoll appointed professor; starts ERC project
25.08.2014
Elena Lieven is visiting the Psycholinguistics Laboratory
25.08.2014
New publication: "Transitivity and affectedness in Mon" written by Dr. Mathias Jenny
18.08.2014
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
13.08.2014
Newar course
23.07.2014
The paper "The influence of speaking rate on Fujisaki model parameters" was accepted by the EURASIP Journal
04.07.2014
Emily Bender visiting
01.07.2014
Paul Widmer and Florian Sommer will give a talk at the Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main
30.06.2014
Mathias Jenny to give plenary talk on Myanmar and Thailand
30.06.2014
Matilde Vida Castro is visiting the Phonetics Laboratory
18.06.2014
Johanna Nichols visiting
18.06.2014
New publication on language evolution
03.06.2014
8th Days of Swiss Linguistics at UZH
18.06.2014
Paul Sidwell visiting
14.05.2014
Balthasar Bickel to give talk at the MPI for Psycholinguistics
06.05.2014
Department of Comparative Linguistics to celebrate its foundation
05.05.2014
Volker Dellwo and Stephan Schmid at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Madrid)
22.04.2014
Balthasar Bickel invited speaker at a conference on “Linguistic Microareas in South Asia”
22.04.2014
Stephan Schmid gives talk in Spain
09.04.2014
Sabine Stoll’s ERC project featured in the UZH News
02.04.2014
Giorgio Iemmolo invited speaker at the Conference "The diachronic typology of differential case marking"
28.03.2014
Visit by Noun-To-Verb-Ratio (NTVR) project team
20.03.2014
New book on South American languages with three papers by Rik van Gijn
18.03.2014
Special issue of 'Linguistics' edited by Giorgio Iemmolo
12.03.2014
Diana Schackow defended PhD thesis
12.03.2014
Mark Aronoff visiting our institute
11.03.2014
Harald Hammerström visiting our institute
11.03.2014
Robert Forkel visiting our institute
10.03.2014
New book co-edited by Rik van Gijn
03.03.2014
New publication by Leemann, Kolly, Werlen, Britain and Studer-Joho
26.02.2014
Balthasar Bickel to give plenary talk
20.02.2014
Article by Adrian Leemann, Volker Dellwo and Marie-José Kolly to be published in Forensic Science International
18.02.2014
Paper by Leemann, Dellwo, Kolly and Schmid at Speech Prosody 2014
18.02.2014
Paper by Leemann, Kolly and Dellwo at Speech Prosody 2014
11.02.2014
Talks by members of the department in New Delhi, India, February 17-19
11.02.2014
New paper by Roland Litscher published
10.02.2014
New paper by Marie-José Kolly and Volker Dellwo published
31.01.2014
New paper by Balthasar Bickel and colleagues accepted for publication
30.01.2014
Paul Widmer named professor of Comparative Indo-European Studies
29.01.2014
Sabine Stoll receives prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant
28.01.2014
Steven Moran giving talk at Dynamique du language (CRNS)
27.01.2014
Article by Sabine Stoll and Balthasar Bickel published
27.01.2014
Article by Sabine Stoll and Elena Lieven published
27.01.2014
Article by Sabine Stoll and Balthasar Bickel published
27.01.2014
Article by Sabine Stoll and Edith Bavin published
16.01.2014
Article by Mathias Jenny and San San Hnin Tun published
13.01.2014
New book co-edited by Sabine Stoll on acquisition of ergativity
16.12.2013
New book co-edited by Balthasar Bickel released
16.12.2013
Steven Moran giving talk at University of Stockholm
11.12.2013
Article by Giorgio Iemmolo in STUF – Language Typology and Universals
29.11.2013
Prof. Dr. Michele Loporcaro affiliated to General Linguistics
26.11.2013
New book co-edited by Sabine Stoll on acquisition of ergativity
26.11.2013
Kaius Sinnemäki visiting our institute
26.11.2013
Paul Sidwell visiting our institute
25.11.2013
Inter-university meeting on the Akan language
19.11.2013
Giorgio Iemmolo to give invited talk at the University of Leuven
18.11.2013
Robert Schikowski and Balthasar Bickel publish valency dictionary of Chintang
18.11.2013
Philippe Maurer co-publishes Atlas of Pidigin and Creole Languages
12.11.2013
Sabine Stoll to give talk at Freiburg workshop on language documentation
29.10.2013
Sabine Stoll to give guest lecture at University of Basel
17.10.2013
A new linguistic institute
04.10.2013
CfP workshop co-organized by Rik van Gijn on morphological complexity
01.10.2013
Tanja Samardžić and Hanna Ruch moving in
27.09.2013
Mathias Jenny receives a 3-year project grant from SNF
27.09.2013
Article by Bickel, Iemmolo, Zakharko, and Witzlack-Makarevich published
27.09.2013
Article by Steven Moran published
25.09.2013
Peter Trudgill visiting
16.09.2013
Rik van Gijn to give a talk at Meronym conference Mexico City
13.09.2013
Giorgio Iemmolo to give a talk at EACL8 in Paris
10.09.2013
Balthasar Bickel to give talk at 'The Cognitive Revolution 60 Years On'
12.09.2013
Two talks by members of the Department of General Linguistics at the 46th Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Split
12.09.2013
Giorgio Iemmolo and Rik van Gijn co-convenors of workshops at the 46th Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Split
09.09.2013
Steven Moran to present two papers at 2nd Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics in Pisa
26.08.2013
Sabine Stoll to give talk at conference 'From Hand to Mouth' in Zürich
26.08.2013
Balthasar Bickel to give talk at conference 'From Hand to Mouth' in Zürich
23.08.2013
Mathias Jenny to give talk at ICAAL 5 in Canberra
21.08.2013
Steven Moran at the 44th Poznań Linguistic Meeting
21.08.2013
Steven Moran to give talk at CALL in Leiden
20.08.2013
Zwei studentische Assistenzen gesucht
12.08.2013
Balthasar Bickel to give talk at Scientifica 2013
12.08.2013
General Linguistics at Scientifica 2013
08.08.2013
Steven Moran at ACL 2013 in Sofia
29.07.2013
Talks by members of the Department of General Linguistics at ALT10 in Leipzig
18.07.2013
Volker Dellwo, Agnes Kolmer, and Richard Wiese to host workshop at the 19th International Congress of Linguists in Geneva
18.07.2013
Tobias Weber to give talk at the 19th International Congress of Linguists in Geneva
15.07.2013
Sabine Stoll and Chintang Project in UZH News
11.07.2013
Steven Moran at Language Diversity Congress in Groningen
09.07.2013
Talk by Mathias Jenny at Chiangmai University
08.07.2013
Steven Moran and Jelena Prokic giving talk at the LIPP symposium on endangered languages
03.07.2013
New website on distributional typology launched
28.06.2013
Katharina Haude visiting our institute
12.06.2013
Mathias Jenny, Volker Dellwo, and Rachel Weymuth on YouTube
31.05.2013
Talk by Sabine Stoll at conference "Language Documentation"
30.05.2013
Article by Sabine Stoll in supplement of 'Spektrum der Wissenschaft'
25.05.2013
Workshop held by Volker Dellwo, Mathias Jenny, and Rachel Weymuth
25.05.2013
Keynote talk by Balthasar Bickel at conference "Language Documentation"
15.05.2013
Alena Witzlack-Makarevich receives honourable mention
14.05.2013
Workshop on "Landscape through the prism of language"
14.05.2013
Transalpine Typology Meeting
13.05.2013
Giorgio Iemmolo and Robert Schikowski at CASTL in Tromsø
09.05.2013
Taras Zakharko to give talk at ZAS in Berlin
08.05.2013
Three talks by members of the seminar at 23rd SEALS conference in Bankok
08.05.2013
Plenary talk by Mathias Jenny at the 23rd SEALS conference in Bangkok
29.04.2013
Alena Witzlack-Makarevich appointed junior professorship in Kiel
24.04.2013
Talk by Bill Foley
20.04.2013
Talk by Greville Corbett
18.04.2013
Talk by Katharina Haude
08.04.2013
Balthasar Bickel to give two talks at Charles University in Prague
08.04.2013
Sabine Stoll to give two talks at Charles University in Prague
03.04.2013
Taras Zakharko at the workshop on "Current Tendencies and Potentials in Language Documentation" in Campinas, Brazil
28.03.2013
Inventory of linguistic journals now available on the department library's homepage
28.03.2013
Interview with Volker Dellwo published in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
27.03.2013
"Dialäkt Äpp" by Mary-José Kolly and Adrian Leemann released
08.03.2013
Studentische Assistenz gesucht
05.02.2013
Ingrid Hove joins the department
04.02.2013
Giorgio Iemmolo and Alena Witzlack-Makarevich receive GRC for a workshop on landscape and language
15.01.2013
Workshop on Switch Reference organised by Rik van Gijn at next SLE
14.01.2013
Balthasar Bickel on the editorial board of “Journal of Linguistic Geography”
14.01.2013
Steven Moran co-author on a paper being presented at CUNY
09.01.2013
Publication by Steven Moran et al. in 'Language'
18.12.2012
Workshop organised by Giorgio Iemmolo at next SLE
04.12.2012
Steve Moran to present at "Workshop on Quantitative Approaches to Areal Typology"
04.12.2012
Giorgio Iemmolo in Konstanz
30.11.2012
Talk by Paul Sidwell on "The Proto-Austroasiatic lexicon project"
29.11.2012
Talk by Seppo Kittilä on "Evidentiality in Finnish"
28.11.2012
Balthasar Bickel invited speaker at the KNAW Conference "Patterns of Diversification and Contact: a Global Perspective"
26.11.2012
Talk by Frank Zimmerer on "What massive reductions (do not) tell us"
22.11.2012
Mathias Jenny at the workshop on Mainland Southeast Asian Languages in Leipzig
20.11.2012
Steve Moran at the workshop on "Phylomemetic and Phylogenetic Approaches in the Humanities" in Bern
20.11.2012
Talk by Philippe Maurer on Portuguese-based creoles
19.11.2012
Giorgio Iemmolo at the workshop on "Clitics in Old Italian" in Pavia
15.11.2012
Two guest lectures by Nikolaus Himmelmann
08.11.2012
Balthasar Bickel at the workshop on "Phylomemetic and phylogenetic approaches in the humanities" in Bern
01.11.2012
Talk by Balthasar Bickel on linguistic diversity
31.10.2012
Giorgio Iemmolo awarded International Short Visit Grant from the SNF
22.10.2012
Workshop on simulation models for language change
15.10.2012
Steven Moran has joined the department
10.10.2012
Mathias Jenny to present a paper at the International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics
09.10.2012
Mathias Jenny presents a paper on Mon at the Austroasiatic workshop in Singapore
03.10.2012
Adrian Leemann, Volker Dellwo and Marie-José Kolly at Phonetik and Phonology 8 in Jena
01.10.2012
Fernando Zúñiga on Balckfoot in the UZH magazine
26.09.2012
Mathias Jenny to present a paper at Syntax of the World's Lanugages V in Dubrovnik
26.09.2012
Talk by Mathias Jenny on language contact and syntactic change in Zürich
26.09.2012
Keynote talk on diachronic universals of agreement systems by Balthasar Bickel
20.09.2012
Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Giorgio Iemmolo, Taras Zakharko and Balthasar Bickel to present a paper at Syntax of the World's Languages V
20.09.2012
Fernando Zúñiga to present a paper at Syntax of the World's Languages V
20.09.2012
Tobias Weber to present a paper at Syntax of the World's Languages V
20.09.2012
Tobias weber to present a paper on indirect diachronic explanations in typology
20.09.2012
Robert Schikowski to present a paper at Syntax of the World's Languages V
17.09.2012
National Science Foundation grant awarded
14.09.2012
Volker Dellwo, Adrian Leemann and Marie-José Kolly to present paper on speaker identification
14.09.2012
Adrian Leemann and Marie-José Kolly to present paper on the smartphone app "Dialäkt Äpp"
14.09.2012
Marie-José Kolly and Volker Dellwo to present paper on speech rhythm in foreign accents
14.09.2012
Adrian Leemann and Marie-José Kolly to present paper on /l/-vocalization in Swiss German
10.09.2012
Postdoctoral research position
05.09.2012
Sabine Stoll and Balthasar Bickel to present a paper at the workshop "Unpacking intentional communication in animals" in Zürich
31.08.2012
Taras Zakharko and Balthasar Bickel to present a paper at SLE 2012 in Stockholm
30.08.2012
Tobias Weber to present paper at SLE 2012 in Stockholm
30.08.2012
Mathias Jenny to present a paper at the SLE conference in Stockholm
30.08.2012
Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Balthasar Bickel and Fernando Zúñiga at SLE 2012
29.08.2012
Giorgio Iemmolo to present a paper at the SLE Conference in Stockholm
24.08.2012
Giorgio Iemmolo and Robert Schikowski at the EuroBABEL Final Conference
20.08.2012
Fernando Zúñiga appointed chair in linugistics at the University of Bern
20.08.2012
Two new publications by Balthasar Bickel
16.08.2012
Sabine Stoll and Balthasar Bickel publish book chapter on "How to measure frequency?"
23.07.2012
Advanced student for research projected wanted
05.07.2012
Tobias Weber at the 12th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics
06.06.2012
Tobias Weber to present poster on non-canonical A marking
04.06.2012
Balthasar Bickel, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich and Taras Zakharko to present paper on semantic role clustering
31.05.2012
Tobias Weber to present paper at SEALS conference
31.05.2012
Mathias Jenny to present paper at SEALS conference
21.05.2012
Stellenausschreibung
21.05.2012
Balthasar Bickel awarded 3-year grant by the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
25.05.2012
Talk by Miriam Butt at the Linguistisches Projektkolloquium
22.05.2012
Talk by John Payne at the Linguistisches Projektkolloquium
16.05.2012
Paper by Giorgio Iemmolo on differential object marking in Chinese accepted for publication
10.05.2012
Giorgio Iemmolo awarded Postdoc grant
04.05.2012
Talk by Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky at the Linguistisches Projektkolloquium
23.04.2012
Balthasar Bickel, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich and Giorgio Iemmolo at the "Anna Siewierska Memorial Workshop" in Leipzig
26.04.2012
Talk by Johanna Nichols at the Linguistisches Forschungskolloquium
04.04.2012
Six new grants at the department!
30.03.2012
Talk by Sebastian Fedden
26.03.2012
Fernando Zúñiga invited speaker at LMU Munich
23.03.2012
Talk by Stefan Evert
15.03.2012
Talk by Sabine Stoll at the Linguistisches Forschungskolloquium
14.03.2012
Accepted for publication
14.03.2012
Accepted for publication
09.03.2012
Talk by Bruno Cartoni
28.02.2012
Guest lecture by Rik van Gijn
23.02.2012
Talk by Rik van Gijn (Nijmegen)
11.02.2012
Giorgio Iemmolo at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society
03.02.2012
Guest lecture by Balthasar Bickel at LMU Munich
02.02.2012
Tobias Weber at the NEILS 7 conference
02.02.2012
Mathias Jenny at the NEILS 7 conference
01.02.2012
Fernando Zúñiga starts his SNSF Professorship
01.02.2012
Mathias Jenny promoted to Reader (Oberassistent)
26.01.2012
Giorgio Iemmolo defends his PhD thesis
20.01.2012
Sabine Stoll at the CLARIN project meeting in Cologne
09.01.2012
Balthasar Bickel is a discussant at this year's Nijmegen Lectures
28.12.2011
Reform of BA and MA curricula
15.12.2011
Talk by Walter Bisang (University of Mainz)
16.12.2011
Talk by Aris Xanthos
07.12.2011
Talk by Balthasar Bikel on multivariate typology at the Berner Zirkel für Sprachwissenschaft
19.11.2011
Plenarvortrag von Balthasar Bickel an der LDLT3 in London
15.11.2011
Vortrag von Balthasar Bickel an der Universität Genf
15.11.2011
Vortrag von Mathias Jenny bei der Siam Society in Bangkok
10.11.2011
Gastvortrag von Michael Cysouw
04.11.2011
Balthasar Bickel und Sabine Stoll am Workshop "Potentials of Language Documentation" in Leipzig
31.10.2011
Gastaufenthalt von David Denison
31.10.2011
Antrittsvorlesung von Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel
27.10.2011
Gastvortrag von Martin Haspelmath
26.10.2011
Wichtig: Tag der Lehre
15.10.2011
Vortrag von Taras Zakharko über ToolboxSearch am DoBeS Workshop Erfurt
12.10.2011
Vortrag von Mathias Jenny über Sprachkontaktphänomene in Burma
10.10.2011
Fernando Zúñiga Mitherausgeber der "Typological Studies in Language"
21.09.2011
Bibliothekskatalog online abrufbar
05.08.2011
Postdoc in Typologie
01.08.2011
Arbeitsstelle Psycholinguistik
01.06.2011
Stellenausschreibungen
01.04.2011
Neuer Seminarleiter
01.12.2015
Plenary talk at ALS by Sabine Stoll