Weitere News

• 06.05.2022 Kellen van Dam publishes paper on "Tangsa-Nocte as a Continuum: A diagnostic feature list for classification of varieties"
• 12.04.2022 K. van Dam's talk on "Semantic Splits in Northern Naga: Lexical disambiguation through partial sound changes in polysemes"
• 06.04.2022 New paper out in Language and Cognition co-authored by Sabine Stoll
• 06.04.2022 Dr. Rowena Garcia, University of Potsdam & MPI Psycholinguistics Nijmegen als Guest Speaker im PhD-Kolloquium am 26.4.2022
• 04.04.2022 Borja Herce will present at APIM 2022 (Analogical Patterns in Inflectional Morphology)
• 04.04.2022 New publication by Borja Herce relies on quantitative corpus data to describe the grammatical profile of a 'negative polarity item' in Spanish, and its emergence in the language.
• 29.03.2022 SNSF grant awarded to Chundra Cathcart
• 25.03.2022 Plenary talk at 35th Conference on Human Sentence Processing by department members Sebastian Sauppe, Martin Meyer, and Balthasar Bickel
• 17.03.2022 Paul Widmer and Salvatore Scarlata on R̥gvedic depictive adjectival compounds and their functions
• 25.02.2022 New paper by Borja Herce explores the morphological intricacies of possessor inflection in Chichimec (Otomanguean)
• 25.02.2022 Talk by Borja Herce on "Stem alternations in Romance verbal inflection and the interaction between frequency and morphological paradigmatic predictability"
• 25.02.2022 "Plot of the month" series funded by GRC Short Grant
• 17.02.2022 Keynote by Sabine Stoll at the 9th International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association
• 17.02.2022 New paper out in Cognitive Science, co-authored by DCLS members Carmen Saldana, Sabine Stoll and Balthasar Bickel
• 14.02.2022 Edgar Suter reconstructs sets of subject inflections that may have ancient roots
• 09.02.2022 Outreach: NZZ article mentioning Martin Meyer's research
• 09.02.2022 Early Career Researchers receive GRC Peer Mentoring Grant
• 31.01.2022 Chapters co-authored by lab member Stefan Schnell
• 31.01.2022 Doing corpus-based typology with spoken language corpora
• 31.01.2022 Crosslinguistic corpus studies in linguistic typology
• 12.01.2022 Alexandra Bosshard presents "Using linguistic methods to quantify call combinations in chimpanzees" at IPS-SLAPrim 2022
• 12.01.2022 Maël Leroux and colleagues present 'Call Combinations in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii)' at IPS-SLAPrim 2022
• 12.01.2022 'Detecting structured repetition in child-surrounding speech: Evidence from maximally diverse languages’. New paper by Sabine Stoll and colleagues in Cognition
• 06.01.2022 Oliver Hellwig, Salvatore Scarlata and Paul Widmer publish on "Reassessing Rigvedic Strata"
• 21.12.2021 Outreach: Anna Graff in radio interview on "Cultural macroevolution of musical instruments in South America" with Radio Tribu
• 21.12.2021 Martin Meyer and colleagues publish on "Cognitive Benefits of Learning Additional Languages in Old Adulthood" in Applied Linguistics
• 20.12.2021 "Does morphological complexity affect word segmentation? Evidence from computational modeling," New paper by Sabine Stoll and colleagues in Cognition
• 10.12.2021 Carlo Meloni presents a poster on "In Search for the Biblical Rhotic - Identifying Biblical Hebrew's Resh" at ESHP 5
• 10.12.2021 Outreach: Talks on Auditory Training by Martin Meyer
• 10.12.2021 Piera Filippi gave a guest lecture on "Vocal expression of emotion across animal species: Implications for the study of language evolution" at the ENES lab
• 10.12.2021 Outreach: Talk by Martin Meyer on "Wie Sprache in den Kopf kommt"
• 22.11.2021 DLCS at annual symposium of the DFG Center for Advanced Studies "Words, Bones, Genes, Tools"
• 10.12.2021 Outreach: Talk by Martin Meyer on "EEG Neurofeedback bei Tinnitus" at the KNZ
• 18.11.2021 Conference paper by Oliver Hellwig and colleagues at CHR 2021: Obtaining More Expressive Corpus Distributions for Standardized Ancient Languages
• 12.11.2021 Word order variation is constrained by syntactic complexity, but only for some dependencies: new paper in Cognitive Science
• 12.11.2021 "Children develop causatives despite pervasive ellipsis: Evidence from Turkish”: Presentation by Guanghao You at BUCLD
• 12.11.2021 Poster presentation by Johanna Schick at BUCLD 2021
• 12.11.2021 Poster Presentation by Olivier Rüst on the acquisition of case systems in typologically diverse languages: Children gradually generalize abstract grammatical rules at BUCLD
• 10.12.2021 Outreach: Carlo Meloni gave a talk on the Aramaic language at the CILV
• 11.11.2021 "Acquisition of negation across ten typologically diverse languages” by Sakine Çabuk-Balli et al. at BUCLD
• 29.10.2021 Understanding Corpus Linguistics: New textbook by Stefan Schnell
• 10.12.2021 Workshop "A Structured Approach to Linguistic Data Collection: Methods in Language Acquisition and Processing" at the IGRS 2021
• 29.10.2021 EEG resting-state and event-related potentials as a marker of learning success in older adults following second language training: new paper out by Martin Meyer in Brain Plasticity
• 29.10.2021 Piera Filippi discussant at VIHAR workshop
• 29.10.2021 Stress and stem allomorphy in the Romance perfectum: new paper by Borja Herce in Linguistics
• 28.09.2021 Cultural macroevolution of musical instruments in South America; new paper by Chiara Barbieri, Anna Graff et al.
• 23.09.2021 Talk by Olivier Rüst on the acquisition of case systems in typologically diverse languages: Children gradually generalize abstract grammatical rules
• 14.09.2021 New paper on dependency length minimization by Jing, Blasi and Bickel in Language
• 13.09.2021 Keynote lecture by Sebastian Sauppe
• 31.08.2021 New papers by Chundra Cathcart and colleague
• 31.08.2021 Talk by Eva Huber on "Differences between inflectional and derivational morphology: a study based on the predictability in a distributional vector space" at KONVENS21
• 27.08.2021 Talk on the Jinghpaw lexicon by Kellen Parker van Dam
• 27.08.2021 Talk on the reduplication of intensifiers in Ollo (Laju) and Kasik (Khapa Nocte) by Kellen Parker van Dam
• 27.08.2021 New paper by Guanghao You, Balthasar Bickel, Moritz M. Daum, and Sabine Stoll
• 27.08.2021 Guanghao You defended his PhD thesis
• 27.08.2021 "Is there a typological profile of isolates?" - Talk at SLE21
• 27.08.2021 Child-directed speech is optimized for syntax-free semantic inference: new paper in Sci. Rep.
• 27.08.2021 Grammatical typology traces population history beyond individual families: new paper in Sci. Adv.
• 27.08.2021 Next-generation areal linguistics: new paper in J. R. Soc. Interface
• 26.08.2021 Paper on "Testing the Relationship Between Looking Time and Choice Preference in Long-tailed Macaques" by Vanessa Wilson et al.
• 11.08.2021 15th August at ICSNL56: Talk on "Coargument Sensitivity in the Pacific Northwest" by David Inman
• 05.08.2021 29 July: Talk by Jekaterina Mažara and Sabine Stoll at CogSci 2021
• 05.08.2021 16 July at IASCL 2021: Poster presentation by Jekaterina Mažara and Sabine Stoll
• 15.07.2021 Talk on "The exponence and development of plurals in Nuuchahnulth" by David Inman at ICSNL56
• 14.07.2021 Talk on "Comparing sketch acquisition grammars of Dene and Inuktitut" by Dagmar Jung and colleague
• 07.07.2021 A new link in the Pacific Rim languages? New paper by Bickel and colleagues in Linguistic Typology
• 05.07.2021 Talk on "Stress and stem allomorphy in the Romance perfectum: emergence, typology, and motivations of a symbiotic relation" by Borja Herce at ISMo2021
• 05.07.2021 Talk on "Open vs closed classes in Pamean and the predictability of inflectional systems" by Borja Herce and colleagues at AIMM5
• 05.07.2021 Talk on "Is there a typological profile of isolates" by Natalia Chousou-Polydouri and colleagues at SLE2021
• 05.07.2021 Talk on "The diachrony of inflection classes: what can information-theoretic measures and quantitative approaches contribute to historical linguistics?" by Balthasar Bickel and Borja Herce at SLE2021
• 05.07.2021 Talk on "Conceptual Interdependence in Language Description, Typology, and NLP: Examples from Nuuchahnulth" by David Inman
• 05.07.2021 Talk on "Referential choice in transitive clauses in Austronesian" by Stefan Schnell and colleague at ICAL15
• 05.07.2021 Talk on "Interpreting the archaeological record to calibrate Arawakan linguistic phylogenies" by Natalia Chousou-Polydouri and colleagues at SALSA XIII
• 30.06.2021 Talk on "Mapping linguistic areas: a preliminary case study in Amazonia" by Marine Vuillermet, Natalia Chousou-Polydouri and colleagues at SALSA XIII
• 28.06.2021 Keynote by Sabine Stoll at UBL5
• 28.06.2021 Keynote by Balthasar Bickel at UBL5
• 23.06.2021 Rolf Hotz to start a PhD at the University of Sydney
• 18.06.2021 Yingqi Jing received SNSF Postdoc Mobility Fellowship
• 17.06.2021 Talk on "Neuro Proto-language Reconstruction" by Carlo Meloni and colleagues at NAACL
• 16.06.2021 New paper by Vanessa Wilson on the effects of rearing and AVPR1a genotype on the presence of autistic-like traits in chimpanzees
• 15.06.2021 Sabine Stoll will give a Keynote on June 3, 2021 at the VILA 4 conference
• 14.06.2021 New paper on Ancient Greek by Florian Sommer
• 08.06.2021 Bickel and colleagues at this year's Cultural Evolution Society Conference
• 08.06.2021 Natalia Chousou-Polydouri, Kellen Parker van Dam, David Inman, Marine Vuillermet, Balthasar Bickel and colleagues will give a talk at SALSA
• 08.06.2021 Talk on "Quantitative detection of cognacy in the predictive structure of inflection clases" by Borca Herce and Balthasar Bickel at SIGTYP
• 07.06.2021 New publication by Florian Sommer on Lithuanian reflexives and IE word domains
• 04.06.2021 New paper by Ebru Ger: "Relation of Infants’ and Mothers’ Pointing to Infants’ Word Comprehension and Latency to Find Referents"
• 04.06.2021 New paper by Guanghao You, Moritz M. Daum, and Sabine Stoll: "Processing Causatives in First Language Acquisition: A Computational Approach"
• 21.05.2021 Piera Filippi will give a talk at the Pufendorfinstitute
• 12.05.2021 Rachel Weymuth defended her PhD thesis
• 21.05.2021 Ebru Ger defended her PhD thesis
• 19.05.2021 New book chapter by Sabine Stoll & Robert Schikowski
• 19.04.2021 André Müller defended his PhD thesis
• 19.04.2021 Wei-Wei Lee defended her PhD thesis
• 26.03.2021 SNFS Grant for Karin Stüber
• 24.03.2021 Dagmar Jung to give a guest lecture in Toronto
• 17.03.2021 A visual stimulus for eliciting associated motion: paper by Marine Vuillermet
• 17.03.2021 Special issue on Source-Goal (a)symmetries across languages: edited by Marine Vuillermet and Anetta Kopecka
• 17.03.2021 State of the art on Source-Goal (a)symmetries across languages: paper by Marine Vuillermet and colleague
• 15.10.2021 Keynote lecture by Nour Efrat-Kowalsky: "What modern distribution can tell us about the past: Evidence from the Ancient Near East"
• 04.03.2021 Talk by Olivier Rüst on the acquisition of case systems: Host – case combinations are gradually generalized
• 03.03.2021 Talk by Arrate Isasi-Isasmendi on the role of case during scene apprehension for speaking
• 26.02.2021 Cross-linguistic patterns of morpheme order reflect cognitive biases: paper by Carmen Saldaña
• 26.02.2021 Talk on Ancient Greek participles by Florian Sommer
• 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