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• 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
• 10.09.2019 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